To: NicknamedBob; TruthFactor; 2ndDivisionVet; prisoner6; InterceptPoint
Great post. That’s thinking out of the box. I don’t think you could easily determine how rapidly the world had progressed if you could see from 1960 to today, although a lot of the elements of today existed then.
35 posted on
12/11/2013 6:35:31 PM PST by
Hardastarboard
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To: Hardastarboard; TruthFactor; 2ndDivisionVet; prisoner6; InterceptPoint
"I don’t think you could easily determine how rapidly the world had progressed if you could see from 1960 to today, although a lot of the elements of today existed then." Exactly! Who would have thought that the cell phone, which anyone could have predicted, would also replace the camera, the portable radio, the pocket calculator, game console, the compass and map, and the notebook?
That's Kurzweil's point; these things surprise us.
36 posted on
12/11/2013 6:54:20 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
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