computers reality

[RodReynolds 87]

"What if I'm merely a hibernating bear who is dreaming?"Why do people always ask this, like it's a bad thing to be a bear.

[StackOSociety 0]

I think people underestimate the true power of nanotechnology and it's implications on every facet of human life. Now, when I'm talking about nanotechnology I mean the era that begins once we create the self-replicating nano-bot. We already have technology that operates in the scale of nanotech, both biologically and physically. Your hard drive has "nano-tech" in it, or parts that operate at the micron level. Biologically, nanotech has been around since humankind has begun. We depend on it for the very perpetuation of our species. What am I talking about? Your DNA, it replicates itself on the nano-scale and it proves that the technology will work and has worked for thousands of years. But DNA replication is only a sliver of what mature nanotechnology could provide for the human species as well as every other living organism on this planet, and later, the entire universe! Imagine your skin interweaved with diamond like structures that support your internal organs as well. You could jump out of an airplane without a parachute and easily survive the fall without so much as a scratch on you. You could have super-compressed oxygen inside your body making you able to survive underwater for weeks on end. Your body would be so tough that a spacesuit would be unnecessary in outer space. And that is just a few physical properties of our body that we could achieve. The greatest advancement would be our ability to completely change and "upgrade" the human brain and our nervous system. Depression, malaise, pain etc. would cease to be a reality for human kind. We will live every moment of our lives in a state of super-emmotional health and ecstasy that far surpasses any crude drug or feeling that mankind has experienced to date. Indeed, drugs will not exist in the future because they are completely unecessary and you would not want to "poison" your new found emotional well being. Intellectually you will far surpass any human ever born, any mechanical computer ever created. Basically, your whole phsyiollogy will be as maleable as a picture or a program in a computer. Every atom in your body is up for replacement and restructuring to better fit a new you. Why live in a fake digital world when reality is just so damn good? The only advantage of a digital world is that you are not bound by the laws of gravity and travel will be instantaneous. Mental telepathy? Maybe, but different and far more efficient modes of communication will be possible in the nanofuture. Why bind yourself to a digital world when the universe is out there waiting to be explored and discovered? We might discover various intelligent life forms and be able to help them overcome their inadequacies and share in the glory of life. We would be able to wipe them out in an instance with our capabilities but why bother? Why not partake in the joy of sharing our newfound capabilities? War will be realized as a pointless endeavor, a destruction of Life when a celebration of Life is what we will be experiencing. Indeed, Life will be realized as the most important concept of reality and the seeding and nurturing of it the most important job that one could ever partake. Thousands of years into the future? Not part of your lifetime? We are probably closer to these discoveries than anyone can fathom. Indeed, the enception of nanotech is directly related to Moore's Law, the idea that computer processing power doubles roughly every eighteen months. This Law has held up so far but we are fast approaching the physical limtations of the transistor. It is estimated that by about the year 2016 or so, we will hit a dead end in creating faster computers in so much as the components will be as small as they possibly can be. With that kind of technology, we won't be making transistors, we will be making the self-replicating nanomachines that will be the building block of the nanofuture. These machines operate very differently than conventional reality would have you think. The Law's of Physics are a lot different on the nano-scale and this parlays into exponential type growth models that are hard to contemplate, but none the less real. Planets, or say Earth, have the option of being completely terraformed at a speed that boggles the mind. Billions of years of planetary construction could be done in a matter of months if not weeks. That is the true exponential and effecient nature of nanotech. Feel free to be skeptical as you like, but google it up if you dont' believe me. Oh, and don't forget to mark 2016 on your calendars. It's gonna be one crazy ass ride for mankind.

[whale_hunter 0]

What if d-o-g- really spells cat?IN THE YEAR 2000...IN THE YEEEEAR 2000

[avsfan 0]

Throw in the exciting science of stem cell research and we just maybe able to survive and move on from this planet. I heard somewhere once that the human genome only contains 36% of its orginal genetic code. Which i interput as , we humans have been gettin are genetic butts kicked."This is the space age, and we are here to go.. However, the space program has been restricted to a mediocre elite who —at great expense— have gone to the moon in an aqualung. Now, they're not really looking for space, they're looking for more time. Like the lungfish, and the walking catfish; they weren't looking for a dimension different from water, they were looking for more water".- W. S. Burroughs

[phlegm 6]

As long as i can still get extra cheese on my in and out i really dont care wat happens

[StackOSociety 0]

Eating would technically be unnecesarry. Or you can eat 100 cheeseburgers a day and not gain any weight 8)

[phlegm 6]

Oh no not that

[Eclipse17 0]

we'll be all dead at that timewho cares!