> Yeah, I've been "struggling" through Kurzweil's book on and off for about 9 months now .... it's been a real struggle because he makes so many extremely optimistic predictions and also because he repeats himself over and over and over again. A summarised version could probably have had ALL of the content and ALL of the detail in less than 10 pages.
> Even though I find his extremely optimistic timescales and predictions very difficult to accept, seismic shifts definitely seem to be coming.
Kurzweil is a footnote in the abstracted context, that I included to further illustrate why the idea of the Singularity is so old.
I think much more than what Kurzweil says will happen can happen. The realm of physical possibility is only over-shadowed by what human nature will allow. So I think at least half of Kurzweil's claims will emerge in the suggested time....many of the other things won't be relevant or will get superceded by other things.
Scifi frauds. SF illuminates.
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