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Immortality is tantalizing close
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>> and you think it's possible within the
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laws of physics and biology.
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>> Yeah. In fact, we know that there's a
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clock in our body called the tie that
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tracks how long we're going to live and
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there's something called talomeorase
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which stops the clock which means that
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we can live forever. That's the good
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news. But the bad news was we found out
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that cancer also uses tie and
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talomeorase to live forever. And so the
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question is can we apply that to humans
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without wakening up the cancers? But
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this is not science fiction. This is the
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future.
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>> And for 71 years, you've been studying
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physics and how science will shape human
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destiny. So, how is life likely to be
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different in the future?
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>> Well, decade by decade, we see the
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enormous progress that we humans have
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made. For example, we'll probably be on
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the moon, maybe Mars, and also the
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artificial intelligence will help us to
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cure cancer and many diseases. However,
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for the first time in human history, we
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have the potential of destroying
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ourselves with designer germs, nuclear
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weapons, perhaps artificial
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intelligence. Like this is a quantum
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computer. This is so powerful that even
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the CIA is worried about the fact that
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these could break into any known
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computer,
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>> including banks, even Bitcoin.
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>> That's right. So, capitalism would
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vanish. Society would come to a halt.
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>> And what about humanoid robots? I would
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look seriously at the possibility of
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merging with them so that we don't have
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a civil war. Realize that we're at the
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edge of a knife. You tilt it the wrong
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way and there's worlds war. You tilt it
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the other way and there's food and
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luxury for everyone. And it's up to us
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to decide which way the knife will go.
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>> Dr. Moaku, I've waited a long time to
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ask someone these questions. Where do
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you believe we came from? Do you think
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it's plausible that in fact we are
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living in a simulation? And then is
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there any evidence when we look out at
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the stars that there is non-human life
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out there?
