Re:What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968)
by martythemaniak on Monday March 24, 2008 @11:00PM
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Sure it's funny, but just wait until the people of 2045 dig up Ray Kurzweil's "Singularity is Near". Fourty years ago some people thought we'd have automated cars, undersea resorts and climatized, domed cities. Today some people think 40 years from now we'll be immortal, omniscient, omnipotent gods that rule the universe...
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Re:What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968)
by phaedrus on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @12:30AM
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One of my CS professors is heavy into Kurzweil. He had me read "The Singularity is Near". I decided Kurzweil's arguments are the rhetorical equivalent of those algebra jokes where you "prove" 1=2 but it goes through a step that hides a divide by zero. Similarly, "The Singularity is Near" uses steps that seem logical to come to a ridiculous conclusion.