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Re:The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are F... by ghransa on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:22AM (#24800072)
What he seems to get wrong are the adoption, the tech is there in niches and works reasonably well, but it's just not wide spread, people just don't see the value in using say VR or Google glass.
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Re:The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are F... by dTal on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:29AM (#24800125)
But that's fundamentally the prediction; VR tech has been available in niches since the 90s.
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Re:The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are F... by rbanffy on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:10AM (#24800458)
As William Gibson says, the future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed.
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