From: Martin Ling (martin@nodezero.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 06:59:59 MDT
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:26:40PM -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> > Knock, knock.
> > Who's there?
> > The Singularity.
>
> Singularity who?
>
> Nooooobody expects the Singularity!
(with apologies to Monty Python)
Reg: "*I* don't know! = Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and
say that there was trouble at the nanomill, that's all - I didn't expect
a kind of Singularity!"
(JARRING CHORD. The door flies open. In come three Extropians.)
Extropian 1: "NOBODY expects the Singularity!"
Extropian 2: "Except us, that is. Our chief principle is perpetual
progress."
Extropian 3: "...perpetual progress ...boundless expansion.... Our two
principles are perpetual progress...and self-transformation.... Our
*three* weapons are perpetual progress, and self-transformation, and
intelligent technology...and open society.... Our *four*...no..."
(Reg and Lady Mountback look boredly at these loonies. They have
obviously blown any chance at a dramatic entrance.)
Extropian 3: "*Amongst* our philos.... Hmf... Amongst our principles...
are such elements as progress, self.... I'll come in again."
(They turn back and escape out into the hall, waiting again for their
cue.)
Reg: "I didn't expect a kind of Singularity..."
(JARRING CHORD - They burst in again)
Extropian 1: "NOBODY expects the Singluarity!"
...etc
Martin
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