Re: tech miracles of the year 2000 as seen from 1950

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 05:14:23 MDT


tisdagen den 15 maj 2001 05:34 Spike Jones wrote:
> Clarke's rule: long term predictions are always too pessimistic.
>
> Extropians corollary: long term predictions are always too
> pessimistic, even when Clarke's rule is taken into account.

I guess this feedback is what really drives the singularity :-)

> I suspect the long term future will have at least some aspects
> that are beyond our current imaginations. spike

It would be boring if it didn't.



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