Former Google Engineer: Humans will achieve immortality in eight years

dumbass doesn't know about global warming

world is over in 2030

Human immortality is not what God intended. He will intervene.

So we're going to go from zero nanobots to nanobots with the ability to reverse aging in 8 years. Hmm

Who wants to be immortal? In this world, I do not.

And we still won't have real hoverboards.

Immortality is not a good thing

Sounds cool on paper but new generations is a major plus.

Imagine having the same shite stains in Washington DC up there forever

There is too much money to be made in the treatment of critical illness for this to ever be allowed to happen.

We engineered a mission to put man on the moon in 1969, but are unable to find any sure cure for any cancer despite decades of research and billions upon billions of dollars of funding.

Big Pharm is Big Business. Pockets don’t get lined if people aren’t dying.

The singularity is near.

There are five technologies which will ultimately lead to radical life extension during the course of this century and one leads directly to digital immortality, these five technologies are advanced Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Advanced Robotics, Genetics, and mind uploading/whole brain emulation through ML/AI techniques. Ultimately, if your memories are uploaded to a non biological brain this will be the path which leads to digital immortality.

A technique that could be used is the combination of robust artificial intelligence and nanotechnology combined with whole brain emulation will enble us to achieve whole brain emulation, uploaded to a digital medium, and replaced with non-biological components until it reaches a stage where the non-biological components can model the biological part through machine learning, ie neural networks, so accurately the original brains loss would be irrelevant from a functional perspective. R&D departments at many FAANG’s are researching this presently.

Once this technology is developed multiple backup copies of the brain could be constantly backed up just as we do with a computer to a cloud network (AWS, Azure, GC), meaning; if one copy fails the others would continue at which point, digital immortality could theoretically be achieved.

That's terrible news, considering there are so many humans with wealth and power today that don't deserve it.