http://www.kurzweilai.net/you-tomorrow-kindle-edition Accelerating Intelligence Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/you-tomorrow-kindle-edition/comment-page-1#comment-82301 NakedApe Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:55:44 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=175538#comment-82301 These self-styled futurologists really bore me. They've been predicting things for decades and reality always turned out completely different. Actually many things remain pretty much the same as always and new things crop up seemingly out of nowhere where nobody could have predicted them. As for me, I will take their predictions with a huge grain of salt and simply wait for what develops. The future will undoubtedly surprise us all. I hope to live long enough to know the origin of life, the shape of the Cosmos, the Theory of Everything, what makes Quantum Mechanics so strange, will there be true AI and what will it say to us, will we find alien life? Will intelligence prevail or will religious fanaticism destroy civilization? Will humanity sink into anarchy, depravity and endless war? I sure hope not but I AM holding my breath. In any case, we are lucky to be living in the most exciting and oft wonderful time in human history. Not meaning to sound arrogant but I think it feels GREAT to be the pinnacle of evolution on Earth. These self-styled futurologists really bore me. They’ve been predicting things for decades and reality always turned out completely different. Actually many things remain pretty much the same as always and new things crop up seemingly out of nowhere where nobody could have predicted them. As for me, I will take their predictions with a huge grain of salt and simply wait for what develops. The future will undoubtedly surprise us all. I hope to live long enough to know the origin of life, the shape of the Cosmos, the Theory of Everything, what makes Quantum Mechanics so strange, will there be true AI and what will it say to us, will we find alien life? Will intelligence prevail or will religious fanaticism destroy civilization? Will humanity sink into anarchy, depravity and endless war? I sure hope not but I AM holding my breath. In any case, we are lucky to be living in the most exciting and oft wonderful time in human history. Not meaning to sound arrogant but I think it feels GREAT to be the pinnacle of evolution on Earth.

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