Immortality
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People who have lost limbs can be fitted with prosthetics that can be controlled using equipment that responds to the part of the brain involved in movement intention, therefore in theory we could replace the whole of the body with a machine similarly wired to the brain..
Of course we could very well have 'bodies' that are far more capable and powerful than our standard organic issue.. Nerve cells can be integrated with, and eventually replaced by silicon alternatives..If this just happened one by one, you wouldnt be aware of it - eventually you really will be non-organic..
With everyones concious control piped into the net, we will, when the next cometry impact occurs be able to exist underground, in a series of massively parallel computer complexes, able to engineer remotely at the surface, using robotic instruments to maintain power supply, repair faults etc.. Our internal world would be almost indistinguishable from the matrix, as we waited out the 10's of 1000's of years of inhospitability above ground.. Similarly, this will give us the real capability to extend life indefinately for interstellar travel, although by then we will be able to travel as quantumly holographic packages of light itself, which can be read and downloaded by any decently advanced civilisaztion...
Take enough mushrooms, look up and to the right in your mind's eye and eventually you can see all this taking place..