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Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director

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On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:56:19 -0800 (PST), Juarez Peace
<joe.snodd@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>
>A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering
>director
>
>by Brad Reed
>http://is.gd/Kianma
>
>Google made a very important hire this past week when it decided to
>bring on famed futurist Ray Kurzweil as its new director of
>engineering. What makes the hire particularly intriguing is Kurzweil
>is equal parts brilliant and insane: He is a pioneer in fields such as
>speech recognition technology but he also thinks he will live forever
>after he uploads his consciousness onto a computer.
>
>After learning about the Kurzweil hire, I decided to take a peak back
>at my copy of The Singularity is Near, Kurzweil’s most famous futurist
>tome where he predicted that human beings would soon “transcend
>biology” and traverse the universe as immortal cyborgs. In no
>particular order, here are some of Kurzweil’s craziest predictions.
>
>    In the 2040s, humans will develop “the means to instantly create
>new portions of ourselves, either biological or nonbiologicial” so
>that people can have “a biological body at one time and not at
>another, then have it again, then change it, and so on.” (The
>Singularity is Near, Page 258)
>
>    By the late 2020s, we’ll be able to eat as much junk food as we
>want because we’ll all have nanobots injected into our bodies that
>will provide us with all the proper nutrients we need while also
>eliminating all the excess fat we’ll gain from eating 20 bags of
>Doritos every day. (Page 304)
>
>    By 2010, “computers… will become essentially invisible: woven into
>our clothing, embedded in our furniture and environment.” Although the
>concept of “wearable” computers has been tossed around quite a bit,
>we’re a long way off from a time when Samsung (005930) will be able to
>sell its first Galaxy Sweater model. (Page 312)
>
>    At an undetermined point in the future, we’ll be able to beam
>ourselves into another person’s brain and experience the world as they
>see it, just as in the film Being John Malkovich. (Page 316)
>
>    By 2033, “virtual prostitution” will be legalized. (Page 318)
>
>    By the mid-21st century, people will evolve into “software-based
>humans” who will “live out on the Web, projecting bodies whenever they
>need or want them, including holographically projected bodies, foglet-
>projected bodies, and physical bodies comprising nanobot
>swarms.” (Page 325)
>
>Kurzweil, who is now 64 years old, knows that there’s a chance that
>his flesh body (or as he calls it, “Body 1.0?) could die before he
>gets to upload his brain into a computer and fly around the world as a
>swarm of nanobots. To ensure that he lives long enough to see such
>technological marvels, Kurzweil says he takes “250 supplements (pills)
>a day” and receives “a half-dozen intravenous therapies each week
>(basically nutritional supplements delivered directly into my
>bloodstream, thereby bypassing my GI tract).” (page 211)
>
>While that may sound excessive to you flesh-based humans, it’s also
>the price Kurzweil is willing to pay for a far-flung chance at
>immortality. So while you may scoff at Kurzweil’s projections right
>now, he may have the last laugh when you’re dying in a hospital and
>he’s whirring about as a software-based human in Body 2.0.

You are an ignorant ass.  Kurzweil has a far better record of success
at prediction than other futurists.  Read WHY he says what he says.
Just because it does not jibe with YOUR limited intuition does not
make it wrong.  He does not just pull his predictions out of his ass.

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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Students who hire or con others to do their homework are as foolish 
as couch potatoes who hire others to go to the gym for them. 

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A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Juarez Peace <joe.snodd@gmail.com> - 2012-12-22 06:56 -0800
  Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Highway to Hell <HtH49439112@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 01:06 +0000
    Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director anyone <ieGJnr4aQXRb!uzEL@z³> - 2012-12-23 01:47 +0000
    Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-22 18:03 -0800
      Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Highway to Hell <HtH49439112@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 21:55 +0000
        Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director spk <jhic@speak.invalid> - 2012-12-23 12:45 -0600
          Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-12-28 12:30 +0000
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              Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director She's a Witch of Trouble in Electric China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-28 21:58 -0800
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2012-12-29 08:35 +0000
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director She's a Witch of Trouble in Electric China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-29 01:44 -0800
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2012-12-29 11:58 +0000
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director She's a Witch of Trouble in Electric China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-29 04:09 -0800
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2012-12-29 19:11 +0000
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director She's a Witch of Trouble in Electric China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-30 03:21 -0800
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2012-12-30 14:36 +0000
                Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director She's a Witch of Trouble in Electric China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-30 07:26 -0800
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  Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-22 18:02 -0800
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    Re: A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google’s new engineering director Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 10:21 -0800

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