[extropy-chat] "The Spike"- Ray Kurzweil

[pietro ferri]

>don't you debate about the "Law" direclty with him? I am sure that it would 
>be of great interest to every extropian!

>I'm not at all sure that would be the case.

Do you mean that a public debate between two such acclaimed authors like Ray 
and Damien would not be interesting?  Well, I don't see how it could not be 
interesting... it would be very interesting indeed.


>  Now, the human genome project was much less so say 10-12 years ago.
>The general consensus circa 1990 was that the HGP could *never* be
>accomplished.  The science for DNA sequencing was well established but
>there had to be breakthroughs in the technology.

Actually, this is a good example of a correct prediction of Ray. He himself 
on several occasions reminds his readers of how "simple" it was for him to 
predict the HGP outcome. :-)

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