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Ray Kurzweil 2001-2003 essays Available as a PDF
prostoalex writes "The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology, and other aspects of our future world. These essays, all published on KurzweilAI.net from 2001 to 2003, are now available as a PDF document for convenient downloading and offline reading. The 30 essays, organized in seven memes (such as "How to Build a Brain"), cover subjects ranging from a review of Matrix Reloaded to "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine" and "Human Body Version 2.0.""
Man, I wish I could get a job making untestable hypotheses, and talking in stunningly vague terms about a vast morass of unrelated ideas.
But I don't want to be a futurist, and I don't have the time to study for the priesthood.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Me: hi - your website appears to have been slashdotted
Ramona: <silence>
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
Not to mention that you spelled "genius" with one o too many. I think that pretty much disqualifies you.
Futurists are just like science fiction writers, except instead of being entertaining by combining prognostication with insight into the human condition (cyberpunk) or appealing to our mythological archetypes (space opera), futurism is entertaining by making you laugh in either pity or amazement at their naivete. So they're all doing their part to make the world a better place...unlike priests.
> Is it news when somebody takes a bunch of existing documents and creates a PDF out of them?
It's a step toward the technological singularity...
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade