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Originally Posted by Philippe Lemay
Well I was thinking more along the lines of the impending technological singularity....
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I've been paying attention to Kurzweil's ideas for quite a while. But even if we (including cybernetic enhancements) become extremely intellectually competent, we can't make the impossible happen. We can't add new whole numbers between one and ten. We can't substantially increase the chemical energy released by oxidizing octane. I think the reasons that we can't travel faster than c might become better understood, but they probably won't change.
I expect that the "singularity" will lead us to being able to handle the complexity of nano-technology and molecular biology... and possibly advances in sociology and government. Great stuff, but it won't make the physically impossible possible.