lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1160arrow-down1external-linkThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comlemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square68fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·5 hours agoAs long as it’s made mandatory to cover with insurance so it’s available to everyone. The last thing we need is an immortal ruling class.
minus-squareassassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoOn the plus side an immortal ruling class might actually start caring about climate change.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 minutes ago… and reduce emissions by wasting the rest. But due to negative selection leading into that upper class they won’t be able to manage the planet further despite thinking that they can and will die of hunger eventually.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoSure, in the most dystopian way possible.
minus-squareVieric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-24 hours agoDon’t worry, going by past history this will be available to any and…uhh, [checks notes] oh, uh-oh.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 hours agoOh at this point it seems like we’re treating dystopian science fiction as a guidebook instead of a warning.
minus-squareivanafterall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoSomeone’s getting hangry and needs a Soylent.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoHold on, what color Soylent are we talking about? Is it the delicious, definitely only plants, green flavor?
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 hours agoHoping real hard that Alternate Carbon is not becoming reality.
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours agoI see that you too have heard the prophecy.
As long as it’s made mandatory to cover with insurance so it’s available to everyone. The last thing we need is an immortal ruling class.
On the plus side an immortal ruling class might actually start caring about climate change.
… and reduce emissions by wasting the rest. But due to negative selection leading into that upper class they won’t be able to manage the planet further despite thinking that they can and will die of hunger eventually.
Sure, in the most dystopian way possible.
Don’t worry, going by past history this will be available to any and…uhh, [checks notes] oh, uh-oh.
Oh at this point it seems like we’re treating dystopian science fiction as a guidebook instead of a warning.
Someone’s getting hangry and needs a Soylent.
Hold on, what color Soylent are we talking about? Is it the delicious, definitely only plants, green flavor?
Hoping real hard that Alternate Carbon is not becoming reality.
I see that you too have heard the prophecy.