The Dilbert Future
<p class="default">12:14 AM, January 27, 2006 
 
Ody Otio's review of Fantastic Voyage (at Amazon) by Kurzweil. 
Straight is the gate,narrow is the way, and few there be that have the money, the disipline, and the faith to persue the overly complicated program suggested by these authors. There is another future book ("The Dilbert Future" by Scott Adams) that suggests in the future you can expect a continuation of the stupidity, selfishness, and lust we see today. It says in the future we will have 80 years of perfect health but we'll live to 160!The future of alternative medicine will be when the poison used to put you out of your misery doesn't work fast enough they'll just club you with the IV stand till your "treatment" is complete. Ok, Ok, the truth of the matter is there is plenty of fascinating, and as far as I can tell relevant information and opinion in this book. But how could you actually apply it to your life? Give up the foods you actually enjoy eating(fat, sugar, salt)do things you don't like to do(exercise, meditate)spend an incredible amount of money on hundreds of pills choked down with an inordinate amount of "special" water and green tea. It is all possible but requires the holy grail missing from all self help regimes:self control 
 
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