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Golfer345 OP t1_j9qleef wrote

Reply to comment by Terminator857 in Been reading Ray Kurzweil’s book “The Singularity is Near”. What should I read as a prerequisite to comprehend it? by Golfer345

Whoa just like as in the movie Minority Report lol!! (The movie depicts vertical commuting as you called it)

Oh ok thanks , that was a good explanation. That Wikipedia article came up when I googled my question but I wasn’t sure if the article was relevant or not

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Golfer345 OP t1_j9qbj65 wrote

Reply to comment by Terminator857 in Been reading Ray Kurzweil’s book “The Singularity is Near”. What should I read as a prerequisite to comprehend it? by Golfer345

Of course I know the basic concept of all those things, I’m referring mainly to how Kurzweil seems to continuously talk about how somehow computer parts as we know them today such as computer chips will be replaced with biological parts that have been harnessed for computational purposes . He went in depth talking about how the different states of the subatomic particles can be treated in the same fashion as 1s and 0s computer code.

At least this is what I gathered from reading Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. Am I right ? Correct me if I’m wrong . If I’m right , how in laymen terms could this work? All his detailed explanations on this fly over my head

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Golfer345 OP t1_it16mw8 wrote

Reply to comment by moniconda in Assuming we had the technology, would any of you all be willing to go and live permanently on a habitable exoplanet or a terraformed planet? by Golfer345

How do you think you’ll cope leaving family and friends? Would we miss Earth landscapes and urban living? I wonder what kind of effect being on a distant sparsely populated planet would have on human psychology, and especially knowing that going back to Earth may be difficult or impossible

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Golfer345 OP t1_it15szv wrote

Reply to comment by SquirtBobby in Assuming we had the technology, would any of you all be willing to go and live permanently on a habitable exoplanet or a terraformed planet? by Golfer345

Good question. What about some cult going to a different planet to start their own society in the same way Puritans and Pilgrims left England for New World? I was thinking a Luddite type cult that wants to just go back to the basics and be like tree hugging Avatar movie blue aliens. Does this sound more appealing?

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