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Immortality is not so far fetched. Also, you can already have the experiences you want to have by Lucid Dreaming. I am certain this is the approach they will take. The nanobots simply make you go to sleep while keeping your consciousness aware that you are sleeping, so you can do whatever you want in your own little simulator.
 
That´s just great, now we´ll get stuck forever with the question "Yeah but will it play crisis?" (Hope we can get to keep our sense of humor)

With all that nanotech, the queation remains, we´ll we need anit-virus, anti-malaware and all that stuff?
By the way I wanna have allways the latest on nano graphic stuff and possible in triple-sli and a hole bunch of multi-core and lots of ram and a lot of os disk space (aparently we´re gonna need a lot of it for our memories).

And for some (not all) people reading this: I was being sarcastic!!!!
 
Futuristic theorists like this are almost always wrong. Although we might could achieve what they predict, we never do for one reason- Money
All our advancements are based on how marketable they are, how much they cost to produce & how much money they will make big corporations. We had the technology for a water powered car years ago but are just now moving toward it due to big companies milking us for gas $ as long as they could.
 
There are too many people on this rock as their is. Why would we want people to live longer? Unless someone is planing in purging the kludges.
 
This isn't just wild ramblings, there have been huge steps made already. I have watched a lot of documentaries about this topic. As you get older (I am nearly 50) the question of longevity becomes a more burning issue.

The human genome is nearly fully mapped, they have already identified many of genes that cause ageing, it is possible to alter these genes with DNA therapy, in experiments they have already doubled the life expectancy of mice. On all of teh programmes I have watch the consensus has been that in approx 20 they will be able to halt and possibly reverse ageing.

But it does raise lots of questions, both ethical and practical, if we live longer, even if we just double the life span of the average human it will have a devastating effect on human population growth, it is not sustainable on this planet. So would everyone give up the right to have children? I doubt it, it is our most basic instinct to breed. resources would be stretched beyond breaking point and of course that then leads to wars

And who would get this treatment? Not the likes of you and me, it would be reserved for those who have the so called greatest minds (insert the word Rich here) Do you think they will go too the housing projects in America, or the council estates in England shouting "Hey, who wants to claim social security payments forever?" We will end up with an even more unfair fractured society, civil unrest, riots etc.

They should realise that just because you can do something, does not mean you SHOULD do it
 
This isn't just wild ramblings, there have been huge steps made already. I have watched a lot of documentaries about this topic. As you get older (I am nearly 50) the question of longevity becomes a more burning issue.

The human genome is nearly fully mapped, they have already identified many of genes that cause ageing, it is possible to alter these genes with DNA therapy, in experiments they have already doubled the life expectancy of mice. On all of teh programmes I have watch the consensus has been that in approx 20 they will be able to halt and possibly reverse ageing.

But it does raise lots of questions, both ethical and practical, if we live longer, even if we just double the life span of the average human it will have a devastating effect on human population growth, it is not sustainable on this planet. So would everyone give up the right to have children? I doubt it, it is our most basic instinct to breed. resources would be stretched beyond breaking point and of course that then leads to wars

And who would get this treatment? Not the likes of you and me, it would be reserved for those who have the so called greatest minds (insert the word Rich here) Do you think they will go too the housing projects in America, or the council estates in England shouting "Hey, who wants to claim social security payments forever?" We will end up with an even more unfair fractured society, civil unrest, riots etc.

They should realise that just because you can do something, does not mean you SHOULD do it
 
Im just praying the nanobots don't run on a microsoft OS. Imagine half the worlds population randomly rebooting or just crashing out and collapsing in the streets XD
 
Aww, remember that part in Surrogate ? that kid was making out with this "HOT CHICK" outside the bar b4 he got shot ? on the other end of the "hot chick" is actually a ... aww gross.
 
Snore... Does the endless blathering of prophetic claims ever outreach mans own compulsion for incompetence. We can't even balance a federal budget or agree that killing babies is a bad thing. What makes you think we will survive a nano virus or worse... surrogates replacing our own lives until one day someone kills one and thus kills the owner and we realize we were designed like this for a reason? It will star Bruce Willis.
 
Cool! I can finally live long enough to see Duke Nukem get released in 3041!
 
Religion will f*** this up from ever becoming a reality!..
Think back to the first heart transplant, stem cells, etc...
"Your playing god"....LOL.. Stupid religious fanatics can go suck it!
 
Yea, but can you play crysis?
Don't you hate it when people keep posting that question?!
 
Stop giving that nut Kurzweil a platform. It's the same song he's been signing for twenty years with his so-called singularity where machines will become smarter than men, take over and turn the world into some Gibson inspired paradise.

All these futurist geek-lords need to stop harping on impending golden ages of unlimited, perpetually acceleating, change and spend more time explaining why the real world is COMPLETELY devoid of these kinds phenomeon .. and always has been.

Nature always finds a balance in the end, sometimes at our expense.
 
I think Ray Kurzweil just finished watching the first season of Fringe on Bluray. :)

Seriously, though, if something like this were to come to pass, you really don't need to worry about over-population and such. It's not like teams of people will be fanning out over the globe to distribute what is like to be incredible expensive treatments to people in third world countries. Even in top tier countries, these treatments would likely be available only to those who could pay in cash for them. Think plastic surgery and dental implants and the like.

Another thing to consider is that, if such technology is possible, it will likely be under military control for a very long time. Think super soldier serum.
 
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