X-Message-Number: 31416 From: Mark Plus <> Subject: "Is the future cancelled, or just postponed?" Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:48:33 -0800 From Alex Lightman's article of that title in the current issue of H+ Magazine: http://hplusmagazine.com/ http://www.box.net/shared/static/fz8v4o8bdi.pdf "The moral of the story is that, for those of us in our forties and up, we need to redouble our efforts at birthing problem-solving technologies, and we need to make the future happen now or never (at least within the lifetimes of adults in 2008). or we better hope that Vernor Vinge is right and that the Singularity doesn't require anything close to a healthy economy, in which case those smarter-than-us bots can take charge and knock off all of our problems like ducks in a row." Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live HotmailR.more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_022009 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31416