Posted by DSCH on October 3, 2003, at 11:22:11
In reply to Re: Can a medicine make you smarter?, posted by wcfrench on October 2, 2003, at 14:38:57
> Could you see, a few hundred years from now in a high school history class... "It was 400 years ago, back in 2220, when humans first discovered smart drugs. This changed the course of human history and brought us to the society and mindset that we have today. Before this, humans were chaotic, suicidal, insane, and blindly harmed killed and killed their own kind. They lived in madness, yet suffered and labored to desperately improve their quality life. Because of these people, the human race truly changed into what we know today. And for that, we owe our ancestors."
Read some K. Eric Drexler, Ray Kurzweil, and some essays by Vernor Vinge ("singularity"). ;-)
One red letter date is Feb. 21, 1953. DNA is recognized as a double helix structure by Watson and Crick.
Another red letter date is Dec. 29, 1959, when Richard Feynman gave this talk... http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
One more would be in 1941, when Konrad Zuse builds the first functional programmable computer. http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html (Zuse is also the first to concieve of the whole universe as a cellular mesh of automata in 1967)
(Yes, this is Social Babbling) :-)
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