Comments on: Farewell to a Great Visionary https://blog.speculist.com/future/farewell-to-a-g.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/future/farewell-to-a-g.html#comment-3494 Phil Bowermaster Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:59:39 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1510#comment-3494 Yeah, but I want it to look like magic to me.

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/future/farewell-to-a-g.html#comment-3493 Stephen Gordon Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:02:15 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1510#comment-3493 Phil:

Well, you have lived to see the third… from the point of view of those who’ve gone before us.

What would the Bowermaster’s of 1708 have thought of your car, your microwave oven, your computer?

There are still remote tribesmen who think our “cargo” is magic.

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/future/farewell-to-a-g.html#comment-3492 Stephen Gordon Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:58:17 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1510#comment-3492 “In 2001 Arthur C. Clarke not only envisioned the future of artificial intelligence, but he also foresaw the ‘uncanny valley’ in which AI becomes creepy–and dangerous–when it is oh so close to human intelligence but not fully there.”

- Ray Kurzweil.

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