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The Singularity Is Near
http://singularity.com ^
| September 22, 2005
| Ray Kurzweil
Posted on 11/19/2005 11:34:03 AM PST by Momaw Nadon
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Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a twenty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” PBS selected him as one of “sixteen revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. An inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), and twelve honorary doctorates and awards from three U.S. presidents, he is the author of four previous books: Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (coauthored with Terry Grossman, M.D.), The Age of Spiritual Machines, The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, and The Age of Intelligent Machines.
To: All
IMHO, this is the most important book of the new century.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:35:16 AM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: Momaw Nadon
To: Momaw Nadon
Hmm... I thought when I read the title that it was about a black hole swallowing us up.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:36:26 AM PST
by
Brilliant
To: Momaw Nadon
Singularity. Now there's a rallying cry.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:37:06 AM PST
by
inquest
(FTAA delenda est)
To: AntiGuv; PatrickHenry; KevinDavis
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:38:14 AM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: Momaw Nadon
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:39:18 AM PST
by
Captain Rhino
(If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense!)
To: Brilliant
I was thinking about a singularity bomb that would make all the worlds nukes look like firecrackers. That would suck.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:39:27 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:39:28 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Momaw Nadon
It all began with the TV remote control ...
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:40:33 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Expect no response if you're a troll, lunatic, retard, or incurable ignoramus.)
To: Captain Rhino
That merging is the essence of the Singularity, an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today No one ever went broke underestimating the (gullibility) of the American Public.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:41:00 AM PST
by
i.l.e.
(Tagline - this space for sale....)
To: Momaw Nadon
Hopefully this does not extend to animals. For example, if cats were to get smarter and learn to read, we would all be in big trouble.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:41:57 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
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To: Brilliant
I've been enjoying Singularity for 6 years now... the ex doesn't even know where I live.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:42:33 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“What now? Let me tell you what now.”)
To: Momaw Nadon
It's called "Let's Play God". Result: hell on earth. Let God be God.
To: Momaw Nadon
Sounds like a bit of a nutbar to me.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:49:31 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Do we have a pic of Michael Jackson dismantled...
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:49:35 AM PST
by
Fruitbat
To: SamAdams76
Nah, smart dogs would keep them in line. LOL...
To: little jeremiah
So what do we do about it?
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:51:03 AM PST
by
inquest
(FTAA delenda est)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:53:41 AM PST
by
Matchett-PI
( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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