Carp'O sez: `what if we are the ultimate intelligence in the universe?'
About as likely as us being the only sentient species in the universe..... nez pa.
What got me most about Joy's article was the unquestionable allusion to `scifi defining science' and beyond that.
The nanotech/geneng/robotics are already climbing up up up at the stock market
if they succeed at privatization of the results of the human genome project, h3lls bells, we could be stuck w/ our diseases forever
Bill Joy is a very optimistic man.
As b4, sorry I did not read all the replies to this; no way I'm gunna read bout 360 of em in 1 sitting.:P I will get to them though these are some fascinating thoughts I've read so far.
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Carp'O sez: `what if we are the ultimate intelligence in the universe?'
:P I will get to them though these are some fascinating thoughts I've read so far.
About as likely as us being the only sentient species in the universe..... nez pa.
What got me most about Joy's article was the unquestionable allusion to `scifi defining science' and beyond that.
The nanotech/geneng/robotics are already climbing up up up at the stock market
if they succeed at privatization of the results of the human genome project, h3lls bells, we could be stuck w/ our diseases forever
Bill Joy is a very optimistic man.
As b4, sorry I did not read all the replies to this; no way I'm gunna read bout 360 of em in 1 sitting.
coke(tm)?
:P
oh, ok, so I should not advertise my business as 'I clean Windows' because I'm violating the M$ tm?
shiiiiiiiiiiite
sorry if someone said this b4, I ain't reading thru 400+ posts