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Of course, you and I won't be here to see it but the article eluded to genetic engineering. And while your description of computers and how they've evolved over the past 40 years is interesting, it's a bit more scary to think of humans being altered genetically for convenience. The bold-ed section is what I find the most fascinating. Humans have evolved naturally without the help of science.
More than likely they will be inhabiting other planets and will need certain physical qualities to live there but thicker eyelids? Bigger craniums? Larger eyes? The result looks like a Blythe doll.
It's great science continues to explore the human body and its diseases but it's just plain creepy to think they might, someday, take a cell from a human being, alter it in some way and replace it in a person, thus altering the natural evolution of humans. If that is the future of humans, I'm really happy I'm living in this time and won't be around to see it. Sounds like some science fiction flick from the 60's.
Genetic Engineering is happening today. Now that medicine is information technology it's going into high gear and we will soon be able to turn off the fat gene and reverse age people so we will be in our 20's, biologically speaking. Even companies like GE are spending billions on the coming age of digital medicine. This is today and why it's cute to read what they think life will be like 100,000 years from now it's impossible to know. However with all that is going on in about 10 years life expectancy will start to go up faster then we age so my goal is to be alive and well 100,000 years from now.
Here is a link to the Wall Steet Journal on a story about it:
Genetic Engineering is happening today. Now that medicine is information technology it's going into high gear and we will soon be able to turn off the fat gene and reverse age people so we will be in our 20's, biologically speaking. Even companies like GE are spending billions on the coming age of digital medicine. This is today and why it's cute to read what they think life will be like 100,000 years from now it's impossible to know. However with all that is going on in about 10 years life expectancy will start to go up faster then we age so my goal is to be alive and well 100,000 years from now.
Here is a link to the Wall Steet Journal on a story about it:
It is, but not to the extend that you could call a breakthrough since scientists still don't completely understand the genome even though they mapped it completely 17 years ago.
It is, but not to the extend that you could call a breakthrough since scientists still don't completely understand the genome even though they mapped it completely 17 years ago.
It's advancing exponentially so the knowledge we will gain in the next 20-30 years will be Unprecedented.
computer technology is advancing exponentially not biological science and neither is our intelligence.
Information technology is advancing exponentially and that includes medicine and genetics.
Look at this:
Kurzweil estimates that by 2045 we will reach the “Singularity,” a point of no return where people and machine will reach a deep level of integration. This transition will include feature roles for synthetic biology and genetic engineering:
Information technology is advancing exponentially and that includes medicine and genetics.
Look at this:
Kurzweil estimates that by 2045 we will reach the “Singularity,” a point of no return where people and machine will reach a deep level of integration. This transition will include feature roles for synthetic biology and genetic engineering:
It has yet to occur, maybe in 10-20 years our intelligence and medicine will advance exponentially but at the moment it's not.
Actually people don't realize it but it has been for 200,000 years now. For proof look at this video.
Go to 4 minutes into the video. FYI this has nothing to do with the singularity but I love the connection how it shows humans have been getting smarter exponentially for thousands of years.
It says "As a species humans become exponentially smarter". So its been going on for about 200,000 years. We just happen to be lucky enough to live on the knee of the curve.
Actually people don't realize it but it has been for 200,000 years now. For proof look at this video.
Go to 4 minutes into the video. FYI this has nothing to do with the singularity but I love the connection how it shows humans have been getting smarter exponentially for thousands of years.
It says "As a species humans become exponentially smarter". So its been going on for about 200,000 years. We just happen to be lucky enough to live on the knee of the curve.
I need more than a youtube video, give me peer reviewed articles that say our intelligence is advancing exponentially. Obviously based on IQ scores people today seem more intelligent than say 20-40 years ago, but to say it's increasing exponentially is a stretch.
They will look like hipsters who have no penis or vagina...They will breed through cloning and everyone will look the same...JOKE...the reality is we will not be here by that time...a huge rock will come out of space and smash this mud but to bits...Some will call it the wrath of God but by that TIME ...God will have totally abandoned the human race. It will just be fate and the law of chance will prevail.
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