Ali's Destiny

Nanobots immortality.

Ray Kurzweil is the former Google engineer and if you have heard of him before, he’s also popular for being a futurist. He believes that by 2030, humans could be immortal with the help of nanobots. Now, I’m not here to debate whether immortality is a possibility, but rather discuss my opinion on immortality itself.

I think it would be a bizarre world where some folks with money would be immortal with nanobots repairing them. People would be so much more afraid of accidents where the body is no longer repairable (smashed brain, for instance).

Immortality is cool. You could live forever, learn everything you want to learn, travel everywhere you want to, new places, new faces, new everything, but.. at some point something strange happens. Not immediately, but in centuries. You know what that is? The excitement you once had.. now fades. You outlive and fully achieve your dreams, your goals, and your reasons to keep going on in life. We choose to live because we have certain goals and dreams to fulfill, but what if you have already accomplished what you wanted to accomplish? Yeah, you can always have a new dream and a new goal, but how many times in your infinite immortal life are you gonna keep having new goals, new dreams and new reasons to live for? At some point, you would grow tired of this small world. I mean, you still gotta make money in this capitalist world, right? The boredom would suck. Even if you didn’t had to make money, at some point there would be nothing desirable to do anymore because we are after all talking about infinite life.

Of course the first thing everyone will say is, life becomes meaningless so I suppose you folks already saw it coming. My first blog on my website (it’s hidden) was on a similar topic. It was on how we spend most of our life learning and working so we can survive. It becomes our life objective. When I say survive, I mean collecting the necessary resources like food, shelter and clothing with money. Most of our life is meaningless, it’s true. I will forever continue to believe work is not where we can find meaning from, especially in a financial industry. It’s the place we work to afford necessary resources like food, shelter and clothing. That’s it.

But I would still choose nanobots immortality, because at least I get an option instead of no option.