Stephen Hawking also expects human beings to become very different from what we are now. He cites the disconnect in Star Trek, which shows amazing technologies run by human beings who are (surprise!) just like us. In fact, he says, we can expect humans to be as highly engineered as everything else centuries hence.
At one time, I saw the rise of natural law as our one salvation against the mechanization of humanity. I don't know where I stand now. - Patrick Gillam Vaj wrote: > > Do you remember a couple years back when a > founder at Sun, Bill Joy, gave an announcement to the world that > humanity would be an endangered species within (I believe he said) 50 > years? He said by then nanotechnology, robotics and genetic engineering > would be so far advanced that we would have computers the size of cells > and human, robotic and computer integration at a threatening level. The > Dalai Lama has even stated on the record that eventually computer could > potentially become sentient. Eventually you may be able to incarnate > into a machine matrix. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
