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Re:What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video] by wiz21c on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:02PM (#20707868)
> the FDA and its counterparts are not going to allow applying those technologies the very moment they are invented.

And probably for very good reasons.

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Re:What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video] by wetpaws on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:06PM (#20707923)
People act like they are immortal, but the sad truth is that we all gonna die and no amount of FDI regulation will save us from it.

All our current medical technologies a way to late to the party, if anything else we should've have them 50 years ago.

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Re:What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video] by zdw on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:49PM (#20708368)
Anything that depends on current high tech or advanced manufacturing (a good portion of imaging technologies, many implants) would definitely not been around 30, let alone 50 years ago.
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Re:What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video] by PasserBy2024 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:50PM (#20708374)
Well, unless future generations will resurrect me then I would prefer the progress to stall completely. Otherwise it's kind of unfair.
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