Extinction of extinction

Hej! Hur mår ni? Thinking about the future, I thought there would be a few good topics to write about. Besides the probable cataclysm that'll happen in the next 50-100 years, I thought it'd be good to talk about the other possibilities of the future. With technology and imagination continuing to be explored, I think in the next 50 years the world will really change.

Considering the last 50 years, we have gone from room-sized computers to mini cell phones that are pretty much free considering their applications now.

It's almost mind-boggling trying to imagine what will happen in science. I think most diseases and illnesses should be pretty much gone by then. It may sound naive to think that everything will be cured, but I think most thing will be that way. 50 years is a long time. But the questions is: how will people be cured?

I think the most probably methods would be energy technology and nano-technology. Energy technology (there are probably better terms such a magnetic therapy and so on) will use light and electricity (or other energies) to heal the body. Similar to those who have "healing hands/minds", there will be a specific energy to heal a certain area or type of disease. It is already used somewhat, but I think it's only beginning for most of the world.

Nano-technology will be artificial or "naturally synthesized" machines (microscopic...nanoscopic) that will enter the body and eliminate whatever infections there may be. It is also in existence, but only starting out. I think both of these technologies will be at a battle with each other. Naturalists will probably agree with energy technology and most other people may think machines are better.

But what happens when, by 2060, we are, for the most part, healthy? We must not forget genetic manipulation that is inevitably going to be prevalent among people. For, what is there to do when you're completely healthy? Customize your appearance, of course. Maybe be something else...a hybrid or "chimaera". Sad days but happy ones are ahead.

The obvious advancement will be in robotics and mind-machine technologies. It won't be pleasant, though. I don't know why people would want to be part machine or allow machines to read your thoughts and so on. But, of course, it doesn't matter, people want it anyway. I think it's a survival instinct so that once we're part machine, we can then become fully machine. I don't see that possibility happening in the next 50 years, but maybe the next 100 years.

I'm not saying that simple things will be impossible, because some already exist! What I mean in the transference of mind and memories into a machine. In effect, a person being able to discard his physical body and entering a mechanical one. Maybe around 2100 that'll happen and be pretty much "successful".

It still seems pretty weird to do so. Will there then be belief in a soul? This is a question that science doesn't like to answer. But if we are able to transfer the mind and memories into a mechanical body, what then? Or if it doesn't work---does that mean the soul does or does not exist?

What do you guys and gals think? Feel free to write. Thanks.

"Dr. John"