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