Raile Hawkeyes
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.08.03 02:17:00 -
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8510190/invest-in-immortality-billionaire
According to the link above, a Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov a 31 year old media mogul is gathering funds for the research of cybernetic immortality and the artificial body - basically transfering human consciousness into a robot body.
As follows:
1.Hello Cyborg
2.Hello HAL
3.Hello Cortana
4.Hello Kitty  Sry cant resist
Serious discussion: Do we really need to waste resources on this enterprise at a time of uncertainty and increasing severity of environmental disasters?
I can understand the desire for people like him, an oligarch, to live comfortably like kings forever. However he is detached from the reality at the ground level that the working people the majority of population are sick and tired of constantly toiling and working and even dying to earn a living, the prospect of working longer even forever would upset majority of them, even if the argument that living longer means better quality of life.
Fact is for many people close to retirement age, the prospect of retirement is the only thing keeping them going in life and continue working, which is why in any government the increase of retirement age would guarantee a large protest movement.
Also, I cant help to think that an oligarch is as close as a capsuleer would be in terms of how they would act. Anyone agree with me?
Another question, should we first clean up our own backyard before trying to expand to other extra-terrestrial body?
I believe this is the wiser course of action assuming that we can overcome the current rate of self-destruction because the challenge is humanity is not capable to be unified unless we have a greater enemy to keep us united. Where is the covenant when you need one (HALO)
Note: The guy in the article is looking with a seriously rose-tinted glass if he believe he can stick to his timetable, the higs-boson particle research took more than 50 years to simply prove that it exist, never mind researching how we can apply it into new technologies, and that research has a lot more resources at its disposal than what he is planning now. |