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   "Kris Krieger"  wrote in message   
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   > "Don"  wrote in   
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   >> "Kris Krieger"  wrote in message   
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   >>> Pat  wrote in   
   >>> news:7d1d615c-2a76-4d8c-bf96-6ab6d91418a8@28g2000hsw.googlegroups.com:   
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   >>>> On Feb 23, 10:04 pm, "Don"  wrote:   
   >>>>> ....say as little as 50 years from now when people will voluntarily   
   >>>>> have their extremities removed because prosthetics will be far   
   >>>>> superior to the hindrances you were born with?   
   >>>>> Computer driven with all the bells and whistles with 1000gb of ram   
   >>>>> and the   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> ability to do that which even young people cannot do.   
   >>>>> Run 1 minute miles with Michelin treads on your dawgz.   
   >>>>> Read Britannica in 2 minutes.   
   >>>>> Before going to bed you will program your extremities for the   
   >>>>> events of th   
   >>>> e   
   >>>>> following day so that you might get done all of the things you had   
   >>>>> planned   
   >>>> .   
   >>>>> 120 wpm? right.   
   >>>>> Why not 9000 words per minute?   
   >>>>> Write 300 emails in 3 seconds.   
   >>>>> Just sit there and watch it happen.   
   >>>>> Think it and its done.   
   >>>>> Artificial eyes that allow you to browse 500 blogs simultaneously   
   >>>>> and reta   
   >>>> in   
   >>>>> everything in your outboard ram which filters into your 1000   
   >>>>> terrabyte swappable HD.   
   >>>>> Nobody has time for grocery shopping anymore, get your chemical fix   
   >>>>> online   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> via USB 12.0.   
   >>>>> Wanna buzz, hit F115.   
   >>>>> The spine is the cortex, imagine flexible ribs, where with the   
   >>>>> blink of an   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> eye you can *swim*, underwater, to europe, in 15 minutes.   
   >>>>> Faster than flying, and no cavity searches.   
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   > Actually, I might be wrong but I didn't think that was possible, due to   
   > hydrodynamics and th e density of water...   
      
   A marlin can do 60+ mph and it has built in limitations.   
   Have you seen those boat hulls that create a cushion of air to cause the   
   water to move faster along the bottom of the boat?   
      
   >>>>> What cavities?   
   >>>>> The ones packed with loonies of course.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I think you've watched "The Matrix" one too many times.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> OTOH, I wouldn't mind a new knee at some point ;)   
   >>>   
   >>> Some portable RAM wouldn't be bad, either, but don't they call that   
   >>> "a laptop"...?   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually, all of this stuff (and the popular enchantment with doing   
   >>> the proverbial, if aprocyphal, "lemming thing") has long been a   
   >>> staple of Speculative Fiction  and "SciFi", so at least some people   
   >>> have been pondering th etopic for a quite a few years.   
   >>   
   >> My, now dead, brother had a small computer in his chest to regulate   
   >> his heartbeat and I just found out my sister has one too.   
   >> Loads of people have had joint replacements and the lifespan on the   
   >> replacements are something like 10 times that of the OEM.   
   >> Slowly but surely all of the parts are being replaced, one by one, and   
   >> this thing is going faster and faster all the time.   
   >> My 50 year prediction was too far into the future......   
   >> Heard about that new dual layer chip?   
   >> 3 trillion processes per second.....Moores Law lives!   
   >   
   > Shoot, I wouldn't mind a new knee myself.   
      
   There's at least 1 new knee joint in my future and possibly 2 hip joints.   
   Not looking forward to it, even though the several people I know that have   
   had it done said they wish they hadn't waited so long.   
   My error was in watching the hip procedure on the Learning channel on a show   
   called The Operation, a few years ago.   
   It was terrifying to see that.   
      
      
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   > I think that the important delineation is not so much the body parts   
   > replacement, but the notion of replacing that which makes us human - the   
   > defnition of which is something that philosophy, science, religion, and   
   > pretty much everyone, still argue...   
   >   
   > THe question is, at what point does a technology pass from making a   
   > person be able to live more humanly, to making people less human?   It's   
   > complex, especially given that people aer already quite adept, even   
   > without any technology, at making themselves less Human.   
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