Discarding Your Body

Marshall Brain, the founder of the brilliant site How Stuff Works and the excellent rationalist sites God Is Imaginary and Why Won’t God Heal Amputees? has an essay entitled The Day You Discard Your Body available on his website.

One may quibble with his particular technological vision, but the premise is sound. Personally, I think we’ll discard our meat bodies for more powerful and durable synthetic ones. Still, it’s a good read, and I highly recommend it.

Goodbye, Earth

If we want to survive, we have to get off this rock. That’s a fact of our evolution. We are a planetary society. We need to become a solar society, then a galactic one. Eventually we need to spread out across the universe, and even across multiple universes.

We are now situated in the middle of a calm period between catastrophic events. A large asteroid or comet strike is certain to happen eventually. The Yellowstone supervolcano will erupt sooner or later. Our long term survival depends on colonizing new worlds.

In order to meet the future we will have to evolve. Fortunately, our intelligence means that we can direct that evolution with technology. We will merge with technology, exchanging our meat machines for more durable synthetic ones. Uploading and copying our consciousnesses into new vehicles. Becoming digital.

We will evolve and meet the challenge, or we will die. That’s evolution. Now is the time for us to step up or fall.

We are still babes, but soon we will have to leave the nest. Mother Earth did a great job of getting us this far. Let’s face the fact that we will have to leave home and mother soon and strike out on our own.

Technological Me

Human beings are on the verge of an evolutionary leap, but this time there is a major difference from the past. We have evolved to the point where we can direct our own evolution.

This is transhumanism, preparing for a posthuman future through technology.

Genetic enhancement, cyborgism, interfacing with a neural net, millions of nanobots that seek out and destroy any cancer cell or virus and keep any internal systems in prime working order, functional immortality.

The singularity is fast approaching. Our knowledge is growing exponentially in so many related fields, each new discovery pushing the boundaries farther and farther. The next 20 years will see an explosion of technologic advancement greater than the previous 200, and the decade after that will be even greater.

Stay tuned. It’s going to be fun.

Nanotech in the Blogoshpere

CES 07: Honda Asimo Humanoid Robot demo

Quite amazing the way the technology is developing so fast.

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