“Does the Transcendent Man just want to be a robot? That’s part of the story coming out of Daniel Lyons’ recent article in Newsweek about Singularity front man, Ray Kurzweil. The other part is that Kurzweil is much too optimistic in his predictions and his beliefs. It’s not a flattering article, for either Kurzweil or [...]

Letters to the Editor. <snip> “Dear Editor: I appreciate your bringing my ideas to your readership.  However, there are numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations in Daniel Lyons’ story.  For example, of the many accurate predictions for the year 2009 that I wrote in my book The Age of Spiritual Machines, written in the late 1990s, only [...]

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