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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (746072)10/12/2013 2:38:36 AM
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>> Or is it talking about extending individual human (or hybrid human/machines or machines with human intelligence) life through artificial means such as nanobots?

I think he's referring to Ray Kurzweil's notion of singularity, which I don't believe suggests any particularly technology. Obviously, nanosciences should play an important role, but so, too, might radical new cancer cures and the ability to develop replacement organs. Obviously, a person can still get killed in a car wreck or murdered or just go missing and never be found.

I think that could happen someday, in my kids lifetimes even. But that presumes that there are still profits in health care to bring about innovation. Which is a very big IF just now...
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