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Just imagine the olympic ceremonies you could pull off with thousands of cyborgs. It actually makes me wonder if chinas already doing it?
 
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If they someday master immortality and master interfacing the brain with a computer, the future is going to be crazy.

I wonder if people will get themselves giant robot bodies with all moving parts interfaced with the brain, that can fly, swim to the bottom of the oceans travel through space. Go see Mars first hand and come back the same age. Go to titan and swim around under the ice.

We could have autopilot for when we sleep. We could go to work take a nap put the autopilot on and let the computer do all the thinking. We could make certain things an automated process and block our memory for those periods of time so it seams instantaneous.

I would head for a distant galaxy, put autopilot on, put myself into hibernate mode and it seam as if I just step from one galaxy to the next in a single instant. Maybe set an alarm system that wakes you under certain circumstances that may be dangerous or would require your consent.
 
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sketchtrack said:
If they someday master immortality and master interfacing the brain with a computer, the future is going to be crazy.

I wonder if people will get themselves giant robot bodies with all moving parts interfaced with the brain, that can fly, swim to the bottom of the oceans travel through space. Go see Mars first hand and come back the same age. Go to titan and swim around under the ice.

Not to rain on your parade too much, but that's a rather impressive energy footprint you are imagining there.
 
LowlyPion said:
Not to rain on your parade too much, but that's a rather impressive energy footprint you are imagining there.

Yeah, we probably will one day master computer interfacing, and maybe immortality, but most people will have smaller things to worry about like obtaining food, drinking water, and breathing air.
 
sketchtrack said:
Yeah, we probably will one day master computer interfacing, and maybe immortality, but most people will have smaller things to worry about like obtaining food, drinking water, and breathing air.

And downloading porn directly to their brains.