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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:08:37 EST
Subject: Re: Prophets of the New Age of Immortality

In a message dated 12/31/07 2:20:52 AM,  writes:


> 
> Today some of us have apparently switched fan allegiances to living prophets 
> of "immortality" like Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey. But how embarrassing 
> will their forecasts look in another 20-30 years?
> 
I can promise you that they will all be wrong again and again, until one of 
them is right.   And then all the people who said the prophets were wrong will 
say they knew their prophecies would happen sooner or later.   And the most 
amazing thing will be the lack of amazement in the general populace.

Oh, and it will sneak up on us like a thief in the night, not like a parade 
on independence day. 

Mike Donahue 



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