[ExI] Fwd: The logical culmination of human technological progress in the self-replicating space habitat?
Bryan Bishop
kanzure at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 14:24:33 UTC 2008
On Friday 03 October 2008, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Damien Broderick
<thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > With all due respect, this is about as persuasive as "The logical
> > culmination of human technological progress is the flying car
> > driven by a man in a silver lycra jumpsuit smoking a self-lighting
> > cigarette."
>
> I pictured a Cylon flying KITT through space; Tweaky as a
> passenger/sidekick and R2D2 in the back managing the dilithium
> crystals and whatnot...
I'm not entirely sure that it was Paul's intention to make a 'logical
culimination' argument but instead point to some converging
technologies.
- Bryan
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