Turning Into Gods
Here’s the teaser trailer for a forthcoming documentary “exploring mankind’s journey to ‘play jazz with the universe’… it is a story of our ultimate potential, the reach of our intelligence, the scope of our scientific and engineering abilities and the transcendent quality of our heroic and noble calling.”
this looks like it will be a fun doc
Like, but I think it is worng to imagine we are eliminating natural selection in the process. Evolution is just moving to a different stage.
Turning Into Gods…
Manchmal wünsche ich mir ein klein wenig mehr transhumanistischen Optimismus. Die Drüben haben das – nach meinen Beobachtungen – etwas besser drauf. Da wird nicht gleich von Wahnsinn gesprochen, nur weil man sich für Kyro-Tec…
Why do I suddenly get the image of bright people in labcoats from the future stumbling back in time, eyes bleeding and screaming “Oh god, we were so wrong!” :-P
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This seems like an interesting and trippy ride. Makes me want to go to the TEDTALKS site again, which is like my own personal crackpipe.
This looks like the first half of a trailer – before the experiment spirals badly and tragically out of control. Cue the giant robots – or ill intentioned very powerful humans.