http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.ht ... t0551.html

I think it's just a little far-fetched at this point, but feasible..

seems some scientists want to replace biological systems with non-biological ones; I highly doubt they'll be able to totally replace the chemical processes...shit...we'd all be androids.

"YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED."

any thoughts on this?

Sounds cool to me. I"ve never been against biotech as long as it's by choice. Strengthening the body and increasing longevity is fine with me Oh, and don't mess with my brain.

"One might comment that we do obtain some pleasure from the elimination function, but I suspect that most people would be happy to do without it." I'll keep my ability to stink up the house thank you very much.

yeah; I just don't want to be tagged for surveillance.

I say go for it. anything that can help save lives or better them.

I wouldn't mind being part of the collective as long as I had the ability to disconnect.

Ray Kurzweil wrote the book called The Age of Spiritual Machines. He says in the book that one day man and machine will become indiscernable, and we will progress to the point of predicting the fate of the universe. It's an interesting book. Get a copy and read it.

If you want to read more about these ideas, look into something called the noosphere. Actually... http://www.usatoday.com and do a search for it. You'll get the search result of the last part of a 4-part article about the future of man with computers and machines.

Just what we need... 6 billion stupid, reproducing, half-robotic people who live for 600+ years.

The fact is that only the very few elite will have access to this technology. What the hell do you think (in theory, of course) the motive for the Illuminati to enslave the world is? They know this technology is not far away, and they want to keep it for themselves.

I think it's disgusting, and frankly I don't think humanity will be around much longer anyway. Science cannot save your soul.

Or worse. Go pick up William Gibson's novels and see what biotech does there.

Science fiction writers are just maligned prophets. Don't believe me? Go read 1984 and then listen to Bush.

haha nice statement.

hey hey...don't slander my name j/k

blame it on the Free Masons.

"The Approved Conspiracy"

"The New World Order"

holla holla, almighty dolla

If men in black suits show up to your house wanting to "talk," I will laugh.

"men in black" is another conspiracy theory (seriously);

check out the book "It's All Under Control" by Robert Anton Wilson.

I know me some conspiracy theories man...

i kinda figured you knew about the sharply dressed men, who mysteriously appeared on the scene of apparent alien sightings, and freak occurances, and just as mysteriously disappeared...

probably anyone else would have thought of the hollywood flicks.

Oh, they'll be here pretty soon.

Except the suits will be more like riot gear... and there won't be much "talk"ing going on.

DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!

nah, they'll be sporting white coats, and will show up in a white van with no windows, to take you away in a nice, snug coat, in which you'll be hugging yourself.

Oh boy...

All geniuses in history have been perceived as insane, I am no different. In fact, the hebrew word for "prophet" translates literally as "crazy person."

Go back to watching turnervision dude. I've done my research. Even during the gulf war I predicted the fact that they wouldn't kill Saddam... they needed to save him for more psychological warfare now.

They'll pull Bin Laden out again in a few years or so too. Just watch!

lol i was FUCKING KIDDING...

i am a bit insane, myself; at least, that's what they tell me, as they dispence antipsychotics to me every month.

I don't really watch much TV; as it is, I think this war shit is nothing but a distraction to my daily life, and school. I won't take it TOO seriously, until bombs start raining on my beloved San Antonio, or my neighbors drop dead from smallpox.

(I'm out here in gay ass Albuquerque, Kirtland AFB here has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons IN THE WORLD)

my father was in Bahrain, during the gulf "war" (btw...a declaration of war was never made)

I could go off for many pages about conspiracies, as my ol' man has been to the Pentagon more times than to the dinner table.

WE sold weapons to Iraq; that's how we know they have some...

WE trained Osama, and sold him weapons, to fight against a russian invasion of Afganistan...

you want to talk to me about US relations with Saddam and Osama?? shoot.

Sorry, I gotta check the batteries in my sarcasm detector.

note: Dubya actually gave the Taliban 132 million almighty dollas earlier in 2001. I mean, the CIA has been caught red handed setting this whole thing up, and meanwhile I got neighbors calling the police on me because they think my shotgun is illegal.

Seriously, I gotta move someplace rural real quick here.

So Cheebah... ever considered the possibility bin Laden's a phantom menace they constructed to keep us ignorant of the real truth? This whole war on terror is just a social construct used to strip us of our rights?

That's exactly what I'm saying Lane.

And please, call me Josh.

Sorry... never knew your name before.

Josh. got that.