What do you think, RC ?

[Mackin USA]

We'll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims 


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2344398/Google-futurist-claims-uploading-entire-MINDS-computers-2045-bodies-replaced-machines-90-years.html

[rcjordan]

Likely to come sooner than that, IMO.

[littleman]

That scenario always bothers me.  It would be a copy of our minds, not our minds themselves.  It's like the transporter in Star Trek, they're basically killing one copy of a person and making another.  I'd rather keep on living instead of having new reproductions of myself floating around forever.

[rcjordan]

I read an article a few weeks ago about being very near the tipping point where prosthesis will be more capable than human bone & muscle.  The writer used Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius as a credible example, for instance.  The author ended up by saying that soon, very soon, people will be having elective amputations in order to install the upgrades. I agree 100% and think it'll happen within 5-10 years.

[Mackin USA]

Definition of FREEDOM
1
: the quality or state of being free: as
a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : independence
c : the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous <freedom from care>
d : ease, facility <spoke the language with freedom>
e : the quality of being frank, open, or outspoken <answered with freedom>
f : improper familiarity
g : boldness of conception or execution
h : unrestricted use <gave him the freedom of their home>
2
a : a political right
b : franchise, privilege
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[Brad]

>>elective amputations

Cyborgs.

Remember the Six Million Dollar Man?   Only his was not elective.  You will probably be able to buy an app that switch's you to super slow motion too. 

[rcjordan]

Japanese scientists are expecting to be granted approval to grow human organs in animals and then harvest them for transplant within the next year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10132347/Human-organs-could-be-grown-in-animals-within-a-year.html

[rcjordan]

>Cyborgs

The Man With A 'Battery Operated Brain'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/06/25/195521917/the-man-with-a-battery-operated-brain