[extropy-chat] Singularity shoot-out on Slashdot...

[Kevin Freels]

I was just reading an article in my newspaper that said that roughly 47% of
US citizens can;t correctly point out England on a world map. It was in an
article titled "Are people too ignorant to vote?"


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From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha at objectent.com>
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Singularity shoot-out on Slashdot...


> I found it rather depressing.   I forget how many people just haven't a
> clue.
>
> -s
>
> On Aug 16, 2004, at 11:14 AM, Bret Kulakovich wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Since yesterday there has been back-and-forth on Slashdot.org about
> > the Singularity.
> >
> > Some nice points are made, but from a Sociological standpoint it an
> > interesting slice of humanity to observe the reaction of.
> > Just thought ppl might want to catch it. Slow news day, as they say.
> >
> > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/15/
> > 1642243&tid=214&tid=192&tid=14&tid=6
> >
> > ]3
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