‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years?

[sglowrider]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...rades-what-will-humans-look-like-in-100-years

For all the talk of humans living longer, life expectancy has flatlined in recent years. The near future doesn’t look younger and fitter so much as older and fatter, as the median age in the developed world powers past 40 towards the middle of the century.

Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts’ visions of 2118:

it’s technology focused on the human body that would appear to introduce the most chaos into the system. California biotech startups talk of making death “optional”. Facebook is working on telepathic interfaces. Bionic limbs will soon outperform human limbs. Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology theoretically allows us to fiddle around with genomes. We could look, think and feel in radically different ways.

The future of work is more complicated. Robots threaten to steal all our jobs. Companies in California such as Kernel and Neuralink are already tackling the problem, trying to make humans more efficient workers. They aim to create neural prosthetics that allow the human brain to communicate in real time with machine intelligence, including AI and the internet. And if our thoughts are connected directly to machines – supercomputers can already do 200,000 trillion calculations a second – where does that lead humanity?

 

[37Hoosier]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...rades-what-will-humans-look-like-in-100-years

For all the talk of humans living longer, life expectancy has flatlined in recent years. The near future doesn’t look younger and fitter so much as older and fatter, as the median age in the developed world powers past 40 towards the middle of the century.

Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts’ visions of 2118:

We seem to b too fkn stupid to make it another hundred years.

 

[sglowrider]

We seem to b too fkn stupid to make it another hundred years.

I guess its the case of 'garbage in, garbage out.'

 

[Jeb MT Mater]

igot disapproves of this technology

 

[sglowrider]

igot disapproves of this technology

Probably only the super-wealthy could afford it -- will be like that TV series, Altered Carbon. The rest of us are just parts to spare.

 

[Fro]

I think that's inevitable that at least the people with $$$ will be creating designer children and we'll be massively aided by technology.

Probably will be a bunch of smart, super athletes running around. Dad being able to tweak some things so Billy can at least get a college scholarship for athletics, if not being an NBA/NFL stud is a huge motivator. And might as well make sure they're really smart and don't have bad genes that lead to cancer/bad heart, etc.

Even if you ban it in the US, people will be flying to other countries to do that since the $$$ is such a huge motivator.

 

[sglowrider]

My brother-in-law's dad got himself cryogenically frozen -- stored up somewhere in Michigan. Much to the dismay of the wife.
He thinks they will be able to revive him -- god knows when though. (He died of complications related to Parkinson's a couple of years ago. )

 

[Jeb MT Mater]

My brother-in-law's dad got himself cryogenically frozen -- stored up somewhere in Michigan. Much to the dismay of the wife.
He thinks they will be able to revive him -- god knows when though. (He died of complications related to Parkinson's a couple of years ago. )

The ultimate irony will be when global warming melts a bunch of frozen conservatives.*




* Melts their bodies, no hope for their hearts or minds...