>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html?em&ex
FROM NYTimes.com
The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: June 3, 2008
Before we get to Ray Kurzweil's plan for upgrading the "suboptimal software" in your brain, let me pass on some of the cheery news he brought to the World Science Festival last week in New York.
Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Worried about greenhouse gas emissions? Have faith. Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it'll be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.
Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you're aging. And then, before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software.
It will be very interesting to see how technology blends in with the apparent intuitive harmonious understanding of True Life that is so quickly taking shape and developing understanding in the hearts and minds of so many right now on this planet. The only thing I know for sure right now is that it is truly all good and just fine in Light of the Unassailable Sacred Nature of the One.
What was it Adyashanti said,
"But remember, from the perception of the "One" its all okay 'cause no matter how much you "think" yourself into delusion, you can't think yourself out of reality!"
"The worst you can do is imagine something other than truth"
"Enlightenment is the unaltered state of Consciousness"
"If you are seeking an altered state of Consciousness, stick with the ego"
Love, Chris
There was a time when I read about everything Kurzweil published - yes, even his big fat 'The Singularity is near' opus... and he is a persuasive person... and incredibly informed.... yet now....
Is our future a technological fix? Will such a technology have the capacity to change our mind-sets sufficiently to cope with a world drastically altered. For the world is changing dramatically. Will popping hundreds of pills a day (as Kurzweil himself does) be able to usher in the future we need? Could we afford the Monsanto pills, I wonder?
For me, I feel the Singularity will be one of consciousness. And technology may be able to assist in how we look after our environment as custodians, yet until we learn to resonate in harmony with the new necessities, technology will not resonate to our needs either....
Hope to All!
'Let the beauty we love be what we do'
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Well said Kingsley!!!!
"Could we afford the Monsanto pills"
Nice economy of words - says so much about how technology is being exploited and how futile that technology is when we gets "the cart before the (conscious) horse", so to speak!
Technology, if it is to play any kind of fundamental and lasting role, must find its place behind and in harmony with "Consciousness".....
Otherwise it will AGAIN find itself smoldering in the ashes of repeated human history, with Consciousness being the only survivor, AGAIN....
nuff said,
Chris