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The Singularity and Human Destiny
The Singularity and Human Destiny by Patrick Tucker, Assistant Editor, THE FUTURIST. In 1949, several decades before the birth of the Thomas Moore's Utopia and Christopher PC, computer scientist John von Neumann an- Marlow's Doctor Faustus, but according to Ray nounced, It would appear we have reached the Kurzweil it is our real and fast-approaching limits of what is possible to achieve with com- future. It will come about as the result of an ex- puter technology. He quickly and prudently plosion in our technological abilities. We will in- added, One should be careful with such state- corporate more computer-based processes into ments; they tend to sound pretty silly in five our biological functioning until we transcend years. our crude, earthly bodies entirely and become More than half a century later, it is Neumann's machine-based, virtually immortal. This coming caveat rather than his prediction that is borne out period of rapid technological progress and its daily.
The Singularity and Human Destiny by Patrick Tucker, Assistant Editor, THE FUTURIST In 1949, several decades before the birth of the …
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