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Futurist Sees Machines, Humans Merging in 2045 (Ray Kurzweil alert)
LA Times ^
| 4/16/2006
| James Harkin
Posted on 04/22/2006 3:47:09 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Dark Skies
kurzweil, noted genius, has been having megalomaniacal delusions for years.
To: Dark Skies
The Borg: You Will Be Assimilated. Resistance Is Futile. The Collective Is All.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:49:18 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Dark Skies
An actor merged with a dessert in 1999. (so anything is possible)
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:49:35 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Trading Helen Thomas pics online since 1996.)
To: the invisib1e hand
Sorry about the misspelling in the title. Haste makes waster, darn it.
To: the invisib1e hand
Sorry about the misspelling in the title. Haste makes waste, darn it.
To: Dark Skies
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:51:53 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
To: the invisib1e hand
Has he ever been right about anything? That's usually a good way to figure out who is a visionary genius and who is a crackpot hobo with tenure.
By the way, it's freaking 2006 already! Where is my flying car?
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04/22/2006 3:52:17 PM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:52:56 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
To: Dark Skies
How do you like me now you filthy hippies
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:53:13 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Dark Skies
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:53:57 PM PDT
by
tpaine
To: Gordongekko909
He pretty much was spot on with his prediction of when a computer would defeat a chess grand champion. Actually, he was a bit optimistic. It happened about 20 months earlier than he had predicted.
If you bother to read him, you may find his prognostications all seem to be tracking.
Pick up his latest. Good read. You might learn something.
To: tpaine
May 13th...wish I could be there!
To: Gulf War One; Gordongekko909
This is a graph of Kurzweil's projection of the exponential growth of computer power:
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:58:37 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
To: Dark Skies
Thank goodness my Mayan Calendar says we all take the big Dirt Nap come December, 2012! ;)
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:59:06 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Perdogg
The horror...the bad music...please don't remind me that I came of age during that time!
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:59:17 PM PDT
by
cll
(Carthage must be destroyed)
To: AntiGuv
I think it'll happen (whatever singularity is) long before 2045.
To: Dark Skies
Me too. I'm thinking 2025.
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04/22/2006 4:02:12 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
To: Dark Skies
I wasn't correcting you. I think I unconscioulsy structured the sentence to imply familiarity with the subject. I suppose that might be hubris on my part.
all I know about him is that he is a prodigy, he invented the infamous kurzweil digitally-sampling synthesizer, he came up with a contraption to read Stevie Wonder's mail for him (and Stevie Wonder uses Kurzweil keyboards, or did at least); he went to MIT, I owned the dullard Kurzweil stock for short spell in the '80s. I've followed, with decreasing envy and increasing awe and pity, bits and pieces of the man's ramblings, which suggest a mental trajectory akin to that of a balloon that has been untied and released.
To: AntiGuv
Thanks.
Kurzweil sits on the Army Science Board. I recently met someone else who's been assigned. My goal is to be able to meet the man himself.
In my view, he's the only futurist who's earned himself the right to be followed closely by us lay people.
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