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Torchlight

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2. Things like this get me awed, curious, and anxious
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 02:56 PM
Oct 2024

about where the human race will be in 100 years. I think back to the Deep Discussions we'd have back in college days (mid-eighties) over a few joints and cheap beer, and never in my wildest imagination would I have even blindly guessed that the internet and IA would not ever come to pass, let alone be as game-changing and fundamental to our practical lives as is.



So I do get really curious as to how things will play out over the next 60 years. Mapping the totality of a fly's brain today has me seeing images of spare human brains being programmed in a lab ready to be downloaded and replace the original in case of emergency or some such one spring morning in 2084.

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