[extropy-chat] Kurzweil vs. de Garis - You Vote!

[Natasha Vita-More]

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 9pm on BBC Two

"Meet the scientific prophets who claim we are on the verge of creating a 
new type of human - a human v2.0.

"It's predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of 
the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity - we will be 
able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. 
Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive ultra 
intelligent machines.

"One thing they all agree on is that the coming of this moment - and 
whatever it brings - is inevitable."

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Design Media Artist - Futurist
PhD Candidate, 
<http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=273>Planetary 
Collegium
Proactionary Principle Core Group, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy 
<http://www.extropy.org/>Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller


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