<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:57 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Far future - year 50,000 a.d. </div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Whatever you guess about 50,000 AD is probably going to be wrong.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>There is no economy - everything is free.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just because everything is "free" in some sense doesn't mean there isn't an economy. What we do with the hours in our day is an economy. I am investing in this thread, I am doing economic activity. But what you are getting from me is "free" to you. Is this not economics?</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> Robots do everything except think. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why would robots be limited from thinking? That is something that they are very likely to do better than us within a 100 years. Can't imagine a future 50,000 years from now in which the best thinking is done by human beings.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>No politics - democratic socialism - takes 95% approval for any genetic changes. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Any society where 95% of a vote is required to do ANY ONE THING would be a very authoritarian society, would it not? </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div> Humans do not participate in making babies - all done by computer and genemaking equipment. Gene design borrowed from all sort of animals and plants. Immune system, muscle design, etc. Vision better and I don't know what to make of enhancing smell. Do we really want to smell like a dog? (so to speak) We would likely have to redesign our disgust responses. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, these are interesting questions. But do you have to go so far into the future to imagine them? Star Trek projected 400 years into the future, and what did they project? Cell phones. Gee, I'm sure glad we didn't really have to wait 400 years for that.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>All humans have basically the same genetic makeup except for external features - why deprive newborns of any good genes? (thus making children far more genetically similar to existing adults than today's parent and child) Improving humans by implants etc. has been left way behind. Not considered natural.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Having everyone with the same genetic makeup would be terribly hazardous because then one disease could come by and wipe out everyone. These people don't sound too smart.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>So, everyone is a genius of all sorts. All medical and psychological problems related to genes have been eliminated. Personalities are sunny in disposition, eager to work, devoid of any competitive impulses, unable to even think of hurting another person, and so on.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sounds ideal and evil at the same time. Nice.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br>bill<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's all about telling a story. I suggest spending some time over at the Water Cooler...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/">http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>