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[Mari333]

Run time: 05:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8   Posted on YouTube: November 07, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 06, 2009 By DU Member: Mari333 Views on DU: 598

 
this is pretty cool and eye opening.

[baldguy]

1. Maybe I should become Amish.

[ixion]

2. what it all means is that we will soon be obsolete...

Ray Kurzweil posits that we need only invent a machine capable of self-repair and reproduction and we have created the next dominant species, and will have rendered ourselves obsolete.

"The Age of Spiritual Machines" is well worth the read. Also, "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank Tipler.

[Lint Head]

3. I have read it and still read passages from it occasionally.

I have had those same ideas. To see it written by someone more knowledgeable is fascinating.
:dem:

[ixion]

5. yep, I agree

it was a fascinating read. It's one of those books that sticks with you over time.

[NOW tense]

4. This video is why I think we can climb

out of our hole faster then expected, because our world is moving at lightning speed.

[Turborama]

6. Wow! Some startling stats there.

It's been obvious for a few years that things have been picking up speed exponentially, but until you see the figures being put together in a presentation like that you don't realize quite how fast.

Thanks for sharing, Mari333.

K&T