Book: The transhuman

The discussion was loud, crackling and rather stupid. This does not mean that it is doomed to failure, we all know how often energetic fools promoted such decisions in life that smart ones only shrugged their shoulders in confusion: how, they say, such stupidities are possible in our time?

Actually, if you think about it, it's also creepy that I die every night when I fall asleep. Each of us dies. Disappears as a person. A different person wakes up, renewed, with a different perception of the world: morning

They asked the Coordinating Council to allocate another two trillion for the development of an ultra-broadband network, so that even in distant isolated villages, ordinary people could participate in virtual battles in space, build medieval castles, participate in a conspiracy against Caesar and get the queen's pendants. The main thing is that they do not interfere in our affairs, in the affairs of science, do not teach how to live.

The effect very often depends on the amount of money invested.

Those natural mechanisms that nature has built into all living creatures may work when it comes to amoebas, insects, fish or lizards, but we already know what to do with a person better than slow and blind nature.

The more tolerance, the more civilized the society.

With age, wisdom grows, but strength decreases, decreases ...

Lord, after all, it was you who, having created man, commanded us to further change him from now on only to ourselves, and you yourself washed your hands ... in the sense that you withdrew yourself, and now you are only watching with curiosity. Or with malice. You know better.

Everyone secretly dreams that it is he who will be a long-liver and live a record number of years, remaining in his right mind and memory.

We already know from experience that any bans, if any, were very short-lived. Either the desire for profit wins, or just stupid human curiosity, which makes the child stick his finger into the fire or into the socket.

An old woman with a scythe comes for everyone. So you have to have time to sin, so that later there is something to remember.

It's good to talk about humanism and universal equality and feel so good and righteous when it costs nothing.

Probably, we hold on to the old company also because at our age they no longer make friends, but only lose them. It is a privilege of youth to meet and make friends easily.

Like it or not, but wisdom still depends on maturity.