Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Immortality Is Right Around The Corner, Says Kurzweil. But Other Transhumanists Worry It Won't Happen Soon Enough



If we are to believe transhumanists, people who bill themselves as champions of superlongevity and artificial human enhancement, 2045 should be a very good year. According to one of the movement’s leading figures, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, that’s when humans will achieve immortality through a blend of genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Transhumanists point to exciting technological trends — such as those showing how computer chips are growing smaller, cheaper, and faster — as evidence that Kurzweil’s breakthrough moment, called the singularity, is near. All that most of us need to do, transhumanists say, is wait. But the message is not sitting well with at least one transhumanist, Joseph Jackson, who warns the singularity will not get closer to reality if it depends on a biotechnology industry that runs away from risk and is more interested in increasing revenues. At Humanity+, a transhumanist conference held at Harvard in June, Jackson slammed the biotech industry for having “burned through more than $40 billion since its inception, before finally turning a profit in 2009.’’ So far, transhumanists seem to be listening to Jackson’s pitch for open science and citizen science.

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The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.

Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.

What color Sheep are you?

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