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In all likelihood, NASA will begin to invest in body-free research shortly, and astronauts may be the first people to experience the world of Vertebrane.
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Anthony Bourdain
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”
Anthony Bourdain

Christopher Moore
“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”
Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
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Ray Kurzweil
“Based on the above analyses, it is reasonable to expect the hardware that can emulate human-brain functionality to be available for approximately one thousand dollars by around 2020. As we will discuss in chapter 4, the software that will replicate that functionality will take about a decade longer. However, the exponential growth of the price-performance, capacity, and speed of our hardware technology will continue during that period, so by 2030 it will take a village of human brains (around one thousand) to match a thousand dollars’ worth of computing. By 2050, one thousand dollars of computing will exceed the processing power of all human brains on Earth. Of course, this figure includes those brains still using only biological neurons.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Lao Tzu
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
Lao Tzu

Terry Tempest Williams
“When one of us says, “Look, there's nothing out there,” what we are really saying is, “I cannot see.”
Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

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