Comments on: Ray Kurzweil’s new book predicts development of a super digital brain

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:29:48 +0000

Oh.. good one.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:11:20 +0000

@Marcos: I was just implying an ethnic joke, about my own people.Notice I wrote autobahn, not superhighway.

Ps: Just because someones head looks BIG like a ballon, with all this hot AIR inside, doesn’t mean he thinks clearly.

I’m not in favor of these cars, and I think we won’t need them.

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:06:07 +0000

Until all that trash hits your little head. THEN maybe, just maybe, you start thinking clearly again.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:17:01 +0000

Mims, I’m the same — Back to the Future 2 for instance had flying cars in it in the year 2015, but no mention of the Internet whatsoever….kind of funny when you think about it because, not only has the Internet alone been more profoundly enriching then anything portrayed in that movie’s future, but it sort of expresses the common view of the future…that superficially, things will become more advanced but the status quo will essentially still be the same today as it always has been — people will have cars, go to work, grow old, die…nothing profoundly changing to human nature like the kind expressed with the Singularity.

Reality is stranger, and often better, then Fiction….which kind of goes without saying since fiction is drawn up from reality after all.

Mr.X — It’s not that I don’t necessarily like flying cars….it’s just that, when I hear that repeatedly, I wonder if people aren’t getting the bigger picture…I mean, we have enough issues with people on the road for crying out loud, we don’t really need flying cars…..and when everyone is “telepathically” communicating with one another through nanotechnology, or even bigger, one-mind/multiple-bodies with mind-uploading….flying cars start to look more and more superficial.

Bah, It’s still such an old classical idea — heck, for the people who don’t go for augmentation of any sort, flying cars would probably be really cool for them, as it is anyway ^^.

By: Freddy Bausley

Freddy Bausley — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:19:42 +0000

im sorry you are wrong. we do have flying cars today. they are just too epensive and burns gas too fast to be efficient. here look at this: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402508,00.asp

By: Mimsyborogove923

Mimsyborogove923 — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:33:06 +0000

The flying car thing has always sort of bugged me as well. When I bring up all the incredible predictions for the next few decades in discussions, too often people say “Yeah, but in the 50′s they said we would have flying cars right now.” Ok, so we don’t have flying cars, but look at all the other even MORE incredible stuff we do have.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:00:39 +0000

@Gabriel.
Flying cars: The sky is your “autobahn.”

Sounds great to me ;)

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:46:54 +0000

Flying Cars and Robot Butlers? I can’t say I ever saw those predictions either…..what is with the obsession with flying cars? Nanotech will give us hugely more benefits then flying cars ever will.

By: Mr.X

Mr.X — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:54:36 +0000

@ Logic:

All these advances on the frontier of science forced the manifestations of these predictions to retreat into the future.

By: Logic

Logic — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:51:04 +0000

I don’t recall seeing the phrase “until sometime near the end of the century” before. Is there a reason the LAR would slow or stop there? If anyone has a link, I’d love to learn more.