From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 1996 - 18:01:49 MST
> Johnny Mnumonic - Brain Augmentation
> Virtuosity - AI, Nanotech
> Chain Reaction - Sonoluminescence-induced fusion?
> Multiplicity - Self-identity for uploaded clones
Babylon 5, opener sequence:
Year 1: "The Babylon project was a dream given form."
Year 2: "The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace."
Year 3: "The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed. <WHAM WHAM WHAM> In the year of the Shadow War,
it became something greater - our last, best hope...
for victory."
Year 4: "It was the year of Fire. The year of Destruction. The year
of Rebirth. It was a new age. It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed."
Now I don't know whether or not there's even going to *be* a fifth
season - it's hard to imagine how, even if they say there's going to be
one. The pace *accelerates* and *accelerates* and things get *stranger*
and *stranger* all the time - it's hard to imagine what next year will
be like if this keeps up.
Babylon 5 - Singularity.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I think I know.
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