From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 23:49:13 MST
Damien Broderick...........
>
> I respect Ray Kurzweil's recent PR efforts, but I have to say it bothered
> me a lot to read the EDGE essay where he says with a straight face:
>
> < We are entering a new era. I call it "the Singularity." >
>
This blatant sequestration really pissed me off and has coloured Kurzweil in
my eyes for good. (I got visions of him copying chemistry experiment results
from fellow students - not a good look).
I only hope that in 'trojan-horsing' post/transhuman issues into a wider
mainstream audience (via edge.org), some good comes of it and that he
doesn't screw it up for the rest of us in the eyes of people who really
matter in the long run. I did wonder whether Dr More and Mr Kurzweil had
been doing some back room spin-doctoring, but I'll defer to occam on that.
Cheers,
Colin Hales
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