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Questions for Ray Kurzweil (via Tired Road Warrior)

Ray Kurzweil at ACE
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Famous author. Many people involved in technology also are futurist or transhumanist believers as well.

Futurist (and transhumanist) Ray Kurzweil in Time maganzine (6 Dec 2010) provided answers to the following questions” Is it a mistake to use the events of the recent past as a method of predicting the future? Our intuition about the future is linear.  But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference.  If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30.  If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. What … Read More

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Mike Wallace Interviews Aldous Huxley 1958 « Light Sound Dimension

Mike Wallace Interviews Aldous Huxley 1958 « Light Sound Dimension.

[How] overpopulation relates to freedom; technological development in proportion to authoritarianism; future dictatorships; Brave New World in America; the power of advertising in politics; subliminals and brainwashing; education and group morality; societal decentralization; how productivity necessitates freedom; and of course drugs.

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