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Futurist Sees Machines, Humans Merging in 2045 (Ray Kurzweil alert)
LA Times ^
| 4/16/2006
| James Harkin
Posted on 04/22/2006 3:47:09 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
lol...well, thank goodness we're not Mayan.
But can you imagine an Osama bin Cyborg? Nah...not even a cyborg would fall for that hogwash.
To: cll
I loved that song until the 999th time they played it on MTV.
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:03:59 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
To: Gordongekko909
Where is my flying car?Shhh! [glancing furtively about] the oil companies are sitting on it! [clears throat].
To: the invisib1e hand
kurzweil, noted genius, has been having megalomaniacal delusions for years. Brilliant guy, but more optimistic than most. Possibly a hypochondriac... not a megalomaniac.
Suppose a select few were both fortunate enough to discover the secret for immortality and foolish enough to admit it. They'd be torn to pieces.
Only a secret society of long-lifers could hope to survive, especially if the secret was expensive to implement. You'd have life jealousy and wealth/class jealousy inflamed to the max, with predictable results.
To: Dark Skies
I'm planning to be there. - The Q & A periods should be quite a show.
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:06:57 PM PDT
by
tpaine
To: Dark Skies
transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality."
Sounds like a very weird infomercial.
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:08:10 PM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Suppose a select few were both fortunate enough to discover the secret for immortality and foolish enough to admit it.uhmmmm...I'm sorry. I'm not really an art bell fan...
To: the invisib1e hand
Then you'll know Ramona (who IMO isn't much for someone with Kurweil's imagination). Most 13 y/o boys can do much better... :-)
To: Gordongekko909
Flying car?
We have enough idiots in two dimensions.....
You really want all the nitwits on the road to have a third?
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:09:56 PM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Good observation. Have to say that he seems to me to be very populist versus elitist. His repeated observation is that (religion aside and I am convinced of the resurrection through Christ) something approaching immortality in our present life is coming to all of us.
To: tpaine
Please post a review and ping me!
To: Dark Skies
Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist What has he invented? Hell, anyone can be a 'futurist'.
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:11:45 PM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: HEY4QDEMS
Sounds like a very weird infomercial. A new product co-invented by Dr Phil, Oprah...and John Wayne Bobbitt.
To: Dark Skies
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:12:56 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
To: AntiGuv
There's only one sure-fire way to stop sex with your robotic girlfriend...marry her.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Maybe Kurzwell and the Mayan calender dude can duke it out on Art Bell some time. Surely everyone would stay up to listen.
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:16:03 PM PDT
by
isrul
To: Dark Skies
I'd kind of like to merge with a computer. It's the only way I'm ever going to read everything that I want to read.
To: Dark Skies
To: layman
In addition to inventing the sesame seed bagel...
Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence . All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray's Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
Source:http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html
To: Dark Skies
Yup. Then, a human-machine hybrid will invent the perpetual motion machine. He/it will use it to power the time machine that helps him finally and absolutely find Atlantis.
What a crouton. What the hell is the list of job requirements for the "Futurist" position? Being able to randomly make ridiculous guesses?
Don't any of these folks have real jobs?
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posted on
04/22/2006 4:18:52 PM PDT
by
djf
(Bedtime story: Once upon a time, they snuck on the boat and threw the tea over. In a land far away..)
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