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Holy Crap Guys: or, How We Will All Be Cyborgs By 2030
ViolentDove:
Man, they just found a fungus in Chernobyl that can EAT RADIATION and grow at levels of radiation that would kill a person in one hour.
(the actual chernobyl fungus was found a while ago by a robot, but some researchers have just shown similar fungi have increased growth rates when exposed to ionising radiation)
sean:
--- Quote from: est on 15 Jul 2008, 16:56 ---WHERE'S MY FUCKING JETPACK?
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Seriously, the 21st century is really disappointing so far. I mean, this is nothing like the Jetsons.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: Eris on 15 Jul 2008, 17:25 ---I don't know about you guys, but I'm already a fuckin' cyborg.
You're not missing out on much, really.
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You have an adamantium spine, it's not quite the same thing.
Hat:
--- Quote from: imapiratearg on 15 Jul 2008, 14:29 ---This does not sit well with me. By overriding nature's way, we will surely make mistakes and almost certainly not fix the flaws within humanity that natural selection and evolution would produce. Granted we don't nuke ourselves into oblivion before we get the chance.
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The argument against what you're saying is that our intellect is a new tool in evolution and if we haven't developed it enough so that we fuck this up to the point of extinction, well then that's our own bloody fault.
I personally welcome our new Cyborg overlords. HAIL.
P.S. Darryl most of our modern technology is incredibly lazifying (new word!) by the standards of the past. The idea that we should reject all technology that results in us having to go to less physical effort for mundane tasks we could probably just do ourselves would leave you in a very unfamiliar world you'd barely recognize. Don't get me wrong, I am not all for lazy fucks and the technology they rely on but surely you must see my point while you type on your lightning box.
I'm on the "not in our lifetime" brigade though, for a bunch of reasons, the most prominent being that medical research into shit like this is likely to be incredibly thorough, and also the thing about technology largely benefiting rich people first. Once again, I extend cordial welcomes to our future robot overseers.
supersheep:
--- Quote from: Hat on 15 Jul 2008, 21:48 ---P.S. Darryl most of our modern technology is incredibly lazifying (new word!) by the standards of the past. The idea that we should reject all technology that results in us having to go to less physical effort for mundane tasks we could probably just do ourselves would leave you in a very unfamiliar world you'd barely recognize. Don't get me wrong, I am not all for lazy fucks and the technology they rely on but surely you must see my point while you type on your lightning box.
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Hell, all technology is designed to make us go to less physical effort for mundane tasks - or at least a lot of it, anyways. When the first australopithecine hit a stone off another stone to make a sharp edge for cutting the skin off things, or the first person in the Golden Crescent decided to plant seeds instead of doing some hunter-gathering, that's all designed to reduce the total effort required to do stuff. Technology = civilisation, plain and simple. Take away tech, and you're some sort of crazy person who wants everyone to die off so they can live as a hunter-gatherer again.
I'm all in favour of the continuing technological and scientific advancement. I'm not in favour of the uses it is put to, or how it is used, or who controls it, but that's another discussion. And it's entirely possible that the technological singularity - if it can occur - will occur in the lifetimes of people who are alive today. I'd be willing to bet on seeing sentient AI before I die, for sure, although I'm definitely not a transhumanist. I'd say that things like functional cyborg eyes are about a decade away - they've already come up with some basic ones if I remember right.
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