From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 04:53:05 MST
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> As the wicked witch from the Wizzard of Oz said to Dorothy: "we shall
> see, my pretty, we shall see.." From 1915-1940 we had th advent of
How many people from that generation are still alive? How many people from
that generation will be alive when we will have the first effectively
immortal generation? I can tell you. Zero. Zilch. No one. Deaders each and
single of them.
So, yeah, I think the people from the first immortal generation will be
damn special. It sucks to be us.
> General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, but the world is pretty much
> the same, from a Futurist POV. No flying cars, so magical spaceships
> going a fair fraction of light, no energy sources based on quantum
> processes (not even fission really), not all the different. Not
Do you really consider effective personal immortality not that different?
Don't you see that there's a very large difference between a 90 year life
span, and a 10^9 year life span?
I mean, really.
> without value, but none the less, not that dramatic in my opinion. To
> the traveller on the canoe, even watersheds mean that one is still
> floating about on the water, though clearly a different river ;-)
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