Man will be immortal in 2045

[Lexy]

We can scan our consciousnesses into computers and enter a virtual existence or swap our bodies for immortal robots and light out for the edges of space as intergalactic godlings. Within a matter of centuries, human intelligence will have re-engineered and saturated all the matter in the universe. This is, Kurzweil believes, our destiny as a species....

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-5,00.html

[TofuAttack]

greed and the egotistical nature of mankind is more likely to keep it under wraps and only available to high positioned individuals for a long long time even if the technology did exist.

[ether]

greed and the egotistical nature of mankind is more likely to keep it under wraps and only available to high positioned individuals for a long long time even if the technology did exist.

if this technology did exist people who study hard at this type of thing as talked about on sites as this...they will be the one's in the high position/s not these governments that have no controll over the way these world/s (physical/astral etc) operate

good luck

love all

[interception]

If I may geek out pedantically here:
1. To saturate the poor universe with our *lovely* human intellect will require more than a couple of centuries. Even if we discover FTL travel technologies. I doesn't seem like Kurzweil realizes how big the visible universe is. Kind of pointless to speculate anyway since we aren't even sure how big it all really is beyond what we CAN see with our puny eyes.

2. If this was so easy, why aren't we seeing any evidence of large scale re-engineering of matter anywhere? At all. Anywhere. Are we the first to emerge? Highly unlikely.

3. Will the scanning technology destroy the original squishy brain? If not we are gonna end up with thousands of copies of people running around. Messy. Oh crap, I just realized, we are going to end up with copies of copies of copies anyway if this is viable tech. 

[Lexy]

technology is very fast, we might be closer to this than you think