Just noticed there’s a new documentary about Ray Kurzweil and his big ideas (transhumanism, artificial intelligence, technological singularity, etc.). The movie’s called Transcendent Man: … offering [Kurzweil's] vision of a future in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are billions of times more intelligent…all within the next thirty years. I saw him talk [...]
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The panic surrounding subprime mortgages (among other things) recalls the mess made by the internet- and telecom-bubble in 2000. The comparison is more vivid to me because the former episode occurred at precisely the same moment I finished university – when my real education began. Now another graduation is happening, both in terms of my [...]
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