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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Leora]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Excellent.  I no longer have to worry about how I'll afford a decent retirement home.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from sethwoodworker]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr Adams, you should watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. 1st GIG (and then the 2d GIG)  it's a another style of this, it might interest you, and it is consistently rated in the top ten Anime.  Don't bother with the movie.  It's also all around well made, fun, cool action, did I mention the sexy bits?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Professor59]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Or...
you get the world's most boring zombie apocalypse movie, in which the exoskeletons go for walks, play chess in the park, and stand in line at supermarkets.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Frapazoid]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think you've gone mad, Scott. Seek help.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dekay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I guess these exoskeletons won't come cheap, they can only be afforded by the top 1%, including the government. Imagine a country run by walking corpsesâ€¦ Oh, and of course they'd have nuclear warheads preventing them from being switched off! I'd watch THAT movie!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from langley]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In past decades when creative writers like yourself had such an idea they'd form them into a thought provoking short story and publish them in a pulp Sci-Fi magazine. Now we just get blogs. We'd never have the Foundation Trilogy or all those robot short stories if Isaac Asimov started his career this century.

I wonder if pulp magazines with short stories could make a come back now in tablet/iPad form..? I've bought a hard copy news paper less than 10 times in the last 10 years but I read one 4 days a week on my iPad and while it's free it's clever enough that the ads don't bother me. I don't miss not having the Ad Block browser extension. (Probably the main reason is nothing animates unless I tell it too and I can brush the whole ad page away which is pleasing in itself.)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from oldkookskater]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think, Scott, this idea was already experimented with in the 80s - Robocop.  The &quot;wearer&quot; was basically dead already.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@Phantom II - my counter to Pascal's Wager is that if there is a god that would really let someone into the good afterlife for being essentially a lying sycophant who just pretended to believe to get into the good afterlife, I wouldn't want to be around those people or that god anyway. If there is a more reasonable god then playing Pascal's Wager wouldn't do you any good. And if there isn't a god at all then playing Pascal's Wager still makes you a lying sycophant. So that makes three ways to lose and no ways to win.

Or more simply, since there's no evidence either way other than some old dead guys' assertions, I now assert that if you believe in god you go to an eternally tormenting afterlife, and if you don't you go to shiny happy everything is great forever afterlife. Pascal's Wager is now a wash.

Pascal's Wager is like going to a casino and betting a penny at a table with no croupier and nobody tells you the odds, but a hobo outside told you they *might be* a billion to one.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from serehfa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;Just give the exoskeleton its verbal instructions, close your eyes, and wake up later. &quot; 
- That's how many people drive already... :)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dugfromthearth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A common misconception is that people are living longer due to advanced medicine. The reality is that the maximum life expectancy is not increasing, just the average life expectancy. People still die at age 116. The oldest ever was 122 and they died in 1997. 

So sorry, but people will not live to 200. They will turn into zombies much sooner.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from car206]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; A senior citizen will be able to walk for miles while simultaneously taking a nap.

Yeah, and I'll have my left turn signal on.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jspartan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ah to sit to sit down with you and Gary Larson over a few Guinness.  That would be a memorable conversation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Phantom II]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, since according to you, we're nothing more than meat robots, it seems like there wouldn't be much difference between a zombie robot and one with a living person inside.  Since we have no free will, we might as well fire up the exoskeletal robot, point it out the door, and say, &quot;Have a good unlife!&quot;

I guess there's no difference between self-aware and not-self-aware in the Adams version of meat robotics.  When the exoskeleton develops its own persona independent from its programming, let me know.  

Perhaps a dead give-away (pun intended) that grandma was decomposing would be when citizen &quot;X&quot; says, &quot;Hi, Grandma!!&quot; and gets no response.  Then the difference between nap and dirt nap would become readily apparent.  

A necessary step in denying the existence of God is to deny the existence of the soul. Or at least, so one would think.  However, a study I saw revealed that there are more people who believe in an afterlife than believe in God.  

In which case, I would strongly recommend that you consider Pascal's wager.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nostrildamus: &quot;The revolution of putting fat and frail people in scooters and on exoskeletons is largely misguided.&quot;

Sure, to make it really work you have to mutate them into slimy little slug things first, genetically engineer all their emotions away except jingoism, *then* put them in a wheeled exoskeleton which happens to be shaped like a pepper-pot with a bathroom plunger stuck to the front. Anyone who doesn't agree to this treatment must simply be EXTERMINATED.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Fractal Knight]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am pretty sure you don't play Xbox games,  but last year this concept was already used in an RPG named Fallout New Vegas.  Of course the dead people were in body armor suits trying to kill your character with exotic weapons.  The idea was that is a soldier gets injured during combat,  the suit would 'take care of things' and get the soldier back to safety. One story was that someone died while in a suit during an experimental stage and went berserk killing a bunch of scientists.  This pretty much killed the program.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from shirtbloke]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is going to happen quicker than you think, just as soon as Google get round to building and selling their self driving car. Someone will die inside and the car will go on travelling the weekly routine to work and back.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DMH]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have been planning my future based around your post of December 10, 2008 in which you described how our brains will be downloaded into computers with robot bodies.  

Are you telling me I should have been planning for a 200 year, exo-skeleton based existance all this time?

Now I wish I hasn't spent the last three and a half years eating all that junk food.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Raskolnikov]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Bay could direct &quot;Transformers: Revenge of the Colon&quot;

The trailer:  Exosuits are getting popular with the geriatric crowd -- a little TOO popular.  Built-in testosterone injection systems turned out to be a bad idea.  Juiced-up old men started competing by purchasing larger and larger suits, some with weapons systems and jet packs.

Young people were powerless to stop this trend, since Washington protected these larger iron suits with new laws, and since young people don't vote.

Everything was going along peacefully until iron suited, gray-haired executives in India started a psyllium cartel, restricting output and raising worldwide prices of Metamucil and Colon Cleanse.

The main part of the trailer would show scene after scene of gigantic, Transformer-like oldsters rampaging through Bombay in hand-to-hand combat with similar Indian Transformers.  Lots of explosions, of course.  (The Indian Transformers could have multiple robotic arms or elephant-like heads.)

Young Indians would try everything to stop the battling behemoths.  They try biological weapons, but old folks are immune.  They try yodeling, but they're hard-of-hearing.  

Finally, nature wins the war as the giant machine shells slow down ever-so-gradually, their lights dim, and a little door flips open between the iron bu t t cheeks, and we see hard, constipated stools stuck in place.  A very poignant scene indeed.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from chuck.milner]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This sounds like the plot for Weekend at Bernie's III]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from GeneralTekno]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why the horror/zombie apocalypse interpretation?

I see it as a matter of people ceding control over the the exosuits gradually, as their mind weakens, with the exosuits taking over functions. Eventually the exosuit would actually BE the person in mind and body, if not legally, because they're at this point doing a 1:1 personality emulation.

It's not a zombie cyborg story per say, but Robert Sawyer's &quot;Mindscan&quot; has a similar concept where people who are old/with terminal diseases and money upload themselves into robot replicas, with a perfect copy of their mind. Where it gets interesting is when the legal personhood of these replicas comes into question - though it's an entirely consensual thing, and the humans who undergo the process are supposed to simply live out the rest of their days in comfort and die (which they do), the issue arises as to whether or not these copies are legally the person or not, when the original body dies.]]></description>
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