will this interfere with transcendent man, AI and robotics? or provide man a biological alternative for those craving immortality?
Kurzweil’s Singularity is a point in time three decades from now when we create machines so intelligent that human beings are no longer on the critical path to further innovation. Our inventions will themselves solve the intractable problems of aging and death - even reverse engineering cerebral architectures so that memories and personalities can be backed up and activated in alternative computing platforms.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/422993/review-transcendent-man/
seems things are headed towards technology becoming us.
not a happy thought.
now this may provide the alternative to robotics and artificial intelligence...
The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US. The move is a call to arms to get interested parties together to work towards the surgery.
The idea was first proposed in 2013 by Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy. He wants to use the surgery to extend the lives of people whose muscles and nerves have degenerated or whose organs are riddled with cancer. Now he claims the major hurdles, such as fusing the spinal cord and preventing the body's immune system from rejecting the head, are surmountable, and the surgery could be ready as early as 2017....
http://time.com/3723667/human-head-transplant/
Kurzweil’s Singularity is a point in time three decades from now when we create machines so intelligent that human beings are no longer on the critical path to further innovation. Our inventions will themselves solve the intractable problems of aging and death - even reverse engineering cerebral architectures so that memories and personalities can be backed up and activated in alternative computing platforms.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/422993/review-transcendent-man/
seems things are headed towards technology becoming us.
not a happy thought.
now this may provide the alternative to robotics and artificial intelligence...
The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US. The move is a call to arms to get interested parties together to work towards the surgery.
The idea was first proposed in 2013 by Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy. He wants to use the surgery to extend the lives of people whose muscles and nerves have degenerated or whose organs are riddled with cancer. Now he claims the major hurdles, such as fusing the spinal cord and preventing the body's immune system from rejecting the head, are surmountable, and the surgery could be ready as early as 2017....
http://time.com/3723667/human-head-transplant/
lol ive been woundering when that xfiles shit go8ng to become reality
