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The day when man, through his technology, becomes God.

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This will happen before the year 2050.

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Haven't we already mapped the genome? Aren't we already capable of playing god?

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It need not be intelligent, simply extraterrestrial. Hope I live long enough.

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Teleportation would be pretty cool.

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The extinction of humankind and the planet recovers and keeps on going.

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The extinction of humankind and the planet recovers and keeps on going.

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Sentient computers. Definitely.

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Sentient computers. Definitely.

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How do you know they're not already (to some degree) sentient?

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Because I program computers. And I don't think any of the emergence going on right now can qualify as sentience.

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Teleportation would be pretty cool.

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Just don't let the general riff-raff get ahold of it!

"Hey y'all, watch this!"

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Sentient computers. Definitely.

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How do you know they're not already (to some degree) sentient?

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How do you know that's not what we are?