Technological immortality is the prospect for much longer life spans made possible by scientific advances in a variety of fields: nanotechnology, emergency room procedures, genetics, biological engineering, regenerative medicine, microbiology, and others. Contemporary life spans in the advanced industrial societies are already markedly longer than those of the past because of better nutrition, availability of health care, standard of living and bio-medical scientific advances.[citation needed] Technological immortality predicts further progress for the same reasons over the near term. An important aspect of current scientific thinking about immortality is that some combination of human cloning, cryonics or nanotechnology will play an essential role in extreme life extension. Robert Freitas, a nanorobotics theorist, suggests tiny medical nanorobots could be created to go through human bloodstreams, find dangerous things like cancer cells and bacteria, and destroy them.[27] Freitas anticipates that gene-therapies and nanotechnology will eventually make the human body effectively self-sustainable and capable of living indefinitely in empty space, short of severe brain trauma. This supports the theory that we will be able to continually create biological or synthetic replacement parts to replace damaged or dying ones. Future advances in nanomedicine could give rise to life extension through the repair of many processes thought to be responsible for aging. K. Eric Drexler, one of the founders of nanotechnology, postulated cell repair devices, including ones operating within cells and using as yet hypothetical biological machines, in his 1986 book Engines of Creation. Raymond Kurzweil, a futurist and transhumanist, stated in his book The Singularity Is Near that he believes that advanced medical nanorobotics could completely remedy the effects of aging by 2030.[28] According to Richard Feynman, it was his former graduate student and collaborator Albert Hibbs who originally suggested to him (circa 1959) the idea of a medical use for Feynman's theoretical micromachines (see biological machine). Hibbs suggested that certain repair machines might one day be reduced in size to the point that it would, in theory, be possible to (as Feynman put it) "swallow the doctor". The idea was incorporated into Feynman's 1959 essay There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.[29]
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Decide to limit your movie or TV-watching to no more than five hours a week. You should cut back on any news-watching, too; people around you will notify you on any major headlines. This should allow you to dedicate 20 hours a week to reading. It only takes a few hours to get through several hundred pages of a book. And with 20 hours as a standard goal, you can usually get through multiple books done per week.
Our therapy team is often asked for book recommendations to talk about tough topics. We welcome opportunities to connect families with books that can help them navigate hard discussions. If you are going through a challenging moment, feel free to reach out to your therapist or our mental health team for book recommendations. Your local library may also provide a wealth of resources!
Simply reading with your child is the best, no matter what book your reading, the connection between parent/guardian and child, language exposure, and of course the introduction to new themes all have the potential for so many benefits for wellness.
I had meant for the title, From Homer to the Holodeck to express a continuity across residual, dominant and emerging forms of media and thus my belief that even the most traditional forms of humanism have enormous contributions to make in response to our current era of media transformation. My MIT colleague, Janet Murray recently published a book, Hamlet on the Holodeck, which makes significant contributions to contemporary debates about the role of the humanities in the digital age. [2] In the course of her career, Murray has gone from being a scholar of Victorian women writers to being a research scientist working in a center for educational computing, and her book expresses the relationship she sees emerging between these two worlds. Digital media are increasingly central to all aspects of our modern life, as the computer has shifted from a calculation tool into a cornerstone of contemporary culture. Murray regards this shift to be a cultural revolution on the same order of magnitude as the introduction of the printing-press or the emergence of modern mass media in the late 19th and early 20th century. This media transformation unleashes new artistic potentials, opens new spaces for storytelling and cultural expression, and introduces new models for representing social and cultural relations. Her book outlines the aesthetics of an art form which does not yet exist, an art form whose parameters are starting to emerge from the early efforts of game designers, webmasters, and computer programmers, as they explore what the computer can do and pave the way for the "cyberbards" who are to come. The holodeck in her title refers to the futuristic interactive and immersive technologies imagined by Star Trek, which she feels offers the most compelling contemporary representation of this robust, new storytelling medium. Her phrasing, however, suggests that what is to come does not represent a profound break with the past. Shakespeare still matters in the world of the holodeck and the challenge is to find contemporary forms as complex and compelling on their own terms. Throughout her book, she explores earlier antecedents for interactive or nonlinear fiction, reassessing Tristram Shanty or the Bronte Sister's collaborative storytelling practices, suggesting that the new digital media may represent a fulfillment of dreams held by earlier generations of artists and storytellers. The computer, she writes, "promises to reshape the spectrum of narrative expression, not by replacing the novel or the movie, but by continuing their timeless bardic work within another framework." She ends the book with a call to make sure that we get digital tools into the hands of our greatest contemporary storytellers, and insisting that humanists should not turn their back on technology. 2ff7e9595c
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