Can Google Solve Death ?

[Wade]

Calico: Google's New Project to Solve Death | TIME.com

 

[RenikNorthEngland]

It's a little bizarre that they're going in this direction but I'm not completely surprised. I think it's inevitable the mega corporations umbrella multiple arenas to maintain a level of control. It makes me wonder what the world is going to look in 10 or 20 years time. Oh, to be a fly on the wall during these boardmeetings....

 

[mike]

Its an idea ive waxed lyrical about often esp in the substrate independant minds thread.

Its the prime directive of life ,"survive". To the point where in order to satisfy the directive one has to evolve beyond biology itself in order to do so

The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago,Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Is the human species entering another evolutionary inflection point?

Paul Davies, a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University, says in his new book The Eerie Silence that any aliens exploring the universe will be AI-empowered machines. Not only are machines better able to endure extended exposure to the conditions of space, but they have the potential to develop intelligence far beyond the capacity of the human brain.
"I think it very likely – in fact inevitable – that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of the universe," Davies writes. "If we ever encounter extraterrestrial intelligence, I believe it is overwhelmingly likely to be post-biological in nature."

 

[Charlie Prime]

Selling cancer treatments to old people is very lucrative when Medicare foots the bill.

Google wants into the Big Pharma racket.

 

[stonehart]

I think this fits this thread well enough