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_Howard
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| | Subject: Year Million Thu May 25, 2017 3:19 pm | |
| This is a series on the National Geographic Channel, so I expected much more than it delivered. It's a look at mankind's potential accomplishments in the far future. Sounds good so far, but then it gets absurd. It looks at artificial intelligence from the silly side - Ooh. What happens if the robots take over? Then it goes on to look at life extension - which is a reasonable and quite feasible matter. But they then go on to consider immortality, which they define as uploading your brain to a computer. Fucking ridiculous overall. Don't waste your time. |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Year Million Thu May 25, 2017 7:34 pm | |
| Considering mankind has existed for, what, 40,000 years maybe? I'm always skeptical of programs that posit our existence longer than dinosaurs who lasted, in toto, about 230 millions years I think? |
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richard09
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| | Subject: Re: Year Million Thu May 25, 2017 7:36 pm | |
| Depends what you call mankind, I suppose. Homo sapiens sapiens has been around longer than that, but they weren't doing so much that was noteworthy until recently. |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Year Million Thu May 25, 2017 8:27 pm | |
| - Wikipedia wrote:
- According to genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
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_Howard
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| | Subject: Re: Year Million Fri May 26, 2017 9:06 am | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- Considering mankind has existed for, what, 40,000 years maybe? I'm always skeptical of programs that posit our existence longer than dinosaurs who lasted, in toto, about 230 millions years I think?
The phrase "year million" doesn't refer to the calendar year 1,000,000; it just refers to some time far in the future, maybe just hundreds of years. |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Year Million Fri May 26, 2017 9:41 am | |
| Good use of the language. |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Year Million Sat May 27, 2017 7:17 am | |
| Futurists who write about the "far distant future" -- Nicolas Negroponte, Elon Musk, Arthur C. Clarke, Stewart Brand, Jaron Lanier, John Varley, etc. -- always ignore the trendlines of mankind's known history and instead posit grand cooperative ventures totally new to us. I don't see human nature changing anytime soon, so I don't see anything on the scale of colonizing other planets or building generational space ships ever happening.
When our planet dies we'll die off with it, choked in our own filth. |
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