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1 posted on 04/22/2006 3:47:10 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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kurzweil, noted genius, has been having megalomaniacal delusions for years.


2 posted on 04/22/2006 3:49:02 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (deletum est carthago)
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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.")

3 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)
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An actor merged with a dessert in 1999. (so anything is possible)


4 posted on 04/22/2006 3:49:35 PM PDT by jdm (Trading Helen Thomas pics online since 1996.)
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9 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!)
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How do you like me now you filthy hippies

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10 posted on 04/22/2006 3:53:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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11 posted on 04/22/2006 3:53:57 PM PDT by tpaine
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Thank goodness my Mayan Calendar says we all take the big Dirt Nap come December, 2012! ;)


15 posted on 04/22/2006 3:59:06 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality."

Sounds like a very weird infomercial.
26 posted on 04/22/2006 4:08:10 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist

What has he invented? Hell, anyone can be a 'futurist'.

32 posted on 04/22/2006 4:11:45 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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I'd kind of like to merge with a computer. It's the only way I'm ever going to read everything that I want to read.


37 posted on 04/22/2006 4:16:47 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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Yup. Then, a human-machine hybrid will invent the perpetual motion machine. He/it will use it to power the time machine that helps him finally and absolutely find Atlantis.

What a crouton. What the hell is the list of job requirements for the "Futurist" position? Being able to randomly make ridiculous guesses?

Don't any of these folks have real jobs?


40 posted on 04/22/2006 4:18:52 PM PDT by djf (Bedtime story: Once upon a time, they snuck on the boat and threw the tea over. In a land far away..)
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I'll bet Ray 400 Quatloos it doesn't happen until 2050.


42 posted on 04/22/2006 4:20:06 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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We are Borg You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

43 posted on 04/22/2006 4:20:59 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Its ALREADY happened in the democrat HIVE...
Socialism is all about the machine..
And "A" democracy is the HIVE..
The U.S. is not longer a republic we are a democracy..
BEING ASSIMILATED.. Now as we activly import multi millions of illegal and legal democrats from many places, even Mexico..

Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx

52 posted on 04/22/2006 4:40:24 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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I'm still disappointed at never getting those flying cars in 2000; and even more so at not getting the 10-hour work week.


54 posted on 04/22/2006 4:43:38 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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73 posted on 04/22/2006 5:17:35 PM PDT by martin_fierro (I got squirrelly nieces & nephews)
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I hope we won't run on Windows.


82 posted on 04/22/2006 5:42:38 PM PDT by Mojave
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you know, it really didn't take a genius to yak about "merging" humans and machines... he could have lifted the idea from comic books in the '50's.

Danger, Will Robinson!

88 posted on 04/22/2006 5:53:01 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (deletum est carthago)
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Kurzweil's whole idea is fallacious. People are not simply biochemical machines whose functioning can be reduced to circuitry. Even dogs have amazing ESP powers that are not currently scientifically understood, let alone capable of being replicated by computers. For more info on this see www.sheldrake.org.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
"Hamlet", Act 1 Scene 5


95 posted on 04/22/2006 7:39:13 PM PDT by lfod1776
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There will be many copies
96 posted on 04/22/2006 7:45:30 PM PDT by mikrofon (So say we all)
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