When I get a minute, I’ll provide a full update on Accelerating Change 2005, the first full day of which is today. Yesterday was pre-conference workshops. I attended the workshop on Foresight Consulting, about which I will write more later.
At last night’s reception, I met up with Michael Anissimov, who directed me to a quote from hin in Ray Kurzweil’s new book, The Singularity is Near (which I am pleased to finally have a copy of, signed by the author):
Involuntary death is a cornerstone of biological evolution, but that fact does not make it a good thing.
Michael first opined to that effect here.
Or you can read it here (page 320):
It’s just as I feared. This “Kurzweil” guys is getting all his material from us!
More later.