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Our Descendants will be the Pets of a Future Singularity

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Man-Machine Mer­ger Arriv­ing Sooner Than You Think on the Sin­gu­lar­ity. Mind expand­ing stuff. Ver­nor Vinge and Cory Doc­torow. Ori­gin­ally pos­ted on Boing­Bo­ing Ver­nor Vinge and Cory on the Sin­gu­lar­ity on NPR

This stuff gets my mind going in dif­fer­ent dir­ec­tions. Aug­men­ted humans, instant access to inform­a­tion. Our children’s lives will be shaped by how to access, not hav­ing to bur­den them­selves with hav­ing to imme­di­ately know.

When in soci­ety has this been dif­fer­ent any­way? The young ones always know more than the oldies. My adage is simple: There is always someone younger and smarter than you. How­ever, youth is no match for experience

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July 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pm