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To: John W

Kurzweil has been peddling the same crap for about two decades now. When preacher sets a date for the end of the world that doesn’t happen, their next prediction rightly gets ridiculed. When a ‘futurist’ does it, they write another book and cash another royalty check.

Technology has and will change the world in major ways. But immortality and uploading our consciousness into robots is science fiction.

“’Thus gods are made and whoso makes them otherwise shall die’ And all the city praised him ... Then he died.”
-Rudyard Kipling


11 posted on 04/20/2016 5:32:24 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: CaptainMorgantown
Kurzweil has been peddling the same crap for about two decades now. When preacher sets a date for the end of the world that doesn’t happen, their next prediction rightly gets ridiculed. When a ‘futurist’ does it, they write another book and cash another royalty check.

His predictions are there to look at and compare with what actually happened. He looks about 80% right. The preachers are always wrong, of course.

34 posted on 04/20/2016 6:19:43 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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