[ExI] Fwd: [Body Hacking] Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts

[Damien Broderick]

On 8/17/2010 4:49 PM, darren shawn greer wrote:

> the rhetoric is entertaining me more than science.

> Such as Fuzzyfuzzyfungus's comment that "The singularity is to nerds
> what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant wackjobs."

You need to stay in more. "Rapture of the nerds" is a very old canard. 
It makes about as much sense, and contains about as much truth, as

Surgery and antibiotics are to medicine what the rapture is to 
fundamentalist protestant wackjobs

Literacy is to geeks what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant 
wackjobs

Fire and stone knapping are to Cro-Magnons what the rapture is to 
fundamentalist protestant wackjobs

Spelling "whack jobs" correctly is to literate geeks what the rapture is 
to fundamentalist protestant whack jobs

You can have hours of fun discovering these great insights!

Damien Broderick