Saturday, February 23, 2013

All this gives us is another reason to prepare for the coming singularity. 
 And as with other raptures, one does not expect to have a choice. 
 And one thinks this no matter how underwhelming the experience turns out to be -- in fact.

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  1. Iterate that "Bionic eye" forward 30 years.

    Think about what the Mobile phone looked like in 1985 (the year I first got one), and what they look like now.

    Or, to use a more similar, cybernetic technology, the artificial hip, or heart.

    In 1985, the Jarvik-7, the first commercial Artificial Heart had problems with keeping a patient alive for even a week.

    Today, there is no real life-expectancy limitation due to an artificial heart itself. The life-expectancy of a patient is dependent solely upon the rest of their biological systems.

    The same is true of Artificial Hips.

    In 1985, they were complicated systems where a patient might die during replacement.

    Today, replacing a Hip is almost an out-patient procedure, and the hips tend to be better than the real hip.

    Both mostly due to the development of Pyrolytic Carbon Coatings that prevent blood-clotting and thrombosis.

    So the technology itself will get surprisingly effective and nondescript even.

    UCLA's nanotech labs have developed all manner of Cybernetic technologies that allow for the interaction at the cellular level of computational devices with cellular structures (it should not be too terribly long before we are able to insert endosymbiotic nano-devices that are able to carry specific instructions to protein generation machinery - or any other cellular machinery for that matter).

    Where problems lie with this technological development are that they also allow for horrifically destructive technologies to be created by relatively unskilled technicians.

    And... Looking at our past history, when we have had technological advances that outpaced our ethical and moral systems, great numbers of people died from the mis-use of these systems by people whose perverted interpretations of the sciences drove them to do horrible things (like the Fundamental Religious factions today flout).

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