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Lifeisbeautiful3
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Depends on the availability of bionic parts. We could get to a spot where the whole body is bionic minus the brain.
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edwest211
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It’s a lot more complicated than you think. If the body was a mobile spacesuit for the brain, it would need its own power supply. The brain would need blood, nutrients and other chemicals to survive. No problem in science-fiction but in real life, there would be real mental trauma in having your body amputated and the brain hooked up to a highly sophisticated life-support system. The systems would all have to have 100% natural human function.
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Lifeisbeautiful3
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Agreed. So not in 2018, but maybe 2078? Many people reading this site will still be alive. Those who aren’t will have children/grandchildren to navigate the ramifications
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edwest211
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You’re missing a critical point. Getting shot in the head could kill you, along with fire and explosions. And those bionic parts won’t be free, along with the brain fluid system that will need replenishment on a regular basis.
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philipl
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Not really worried about it. In the next 20 years humans will be able to implant into their brains real computers. I only hope that I live long enough to see it. I think in the next 20 years you will be able to DL your memories and personality into a quantum computer. At the time of death your soul will go to heaven and the rest of you will exist in a computer simulation. Even to place it in a space ship and you can repent to be capt kirk on star ship enterprise and travel the galaxy.
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I work in the strategic realms of the IT space. I am not an IT “nerd” (I actually wish I were for employment purposes!) I am more in the “enterprise wide, government wide, internet of things” space. In other words, what tech is good for, rather than the nuts and bolts of how it works.
I think AI could be a potential threat but I don’t agree with the Sci-Fi view that one day some computer will turn the corner and develop AI, decide it does not like humans, infect and co-opt every other computer suddenly wipe out humanity. It will proceed in stages and at each stage we will have the opportunity to counter problems. It will be similar to cybercrime and cybersecurity, which right now are much bigger threats. Warren Buffet has said that cybercrime is a bigger threat to society than nuclear war. Having been trained in nuclear war as a Navy officer, I tend to agree with him.
I think AI could be a potential threat but I don’t agree with the Sci-Fi view that one day some computer will turn the corner and develop AI, decide it does not like humans, infect and co-opt every other computer suddenly wipe out humanity. It will proceed in stages and at each stage we will have the opportunity to counter problems. It will be similar to cybercrime and cybersecurity, which right now are much bigger threats. Warren Buffet has said that cybercrime is a bigger threat to society than nuclear war. Having been trained in nuclear war as a Navy officer, I tend to agree with him.
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