[ExI] Time magazine cover story on the singularity

[Darren Greer]

>Commercialization is our friend.  Look what it did for Christmas.<


If you can sell Santa Claus and Justin Beiber, you can sell anything.


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2011/2/18 spike <spike66 at att.net>

> *…On Behalf Of *Darren Greer
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Time magazine cover story on the singularity
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> >>it was a jolt to see all that in something as mainstream as Time
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> >This may be terribly cynical of me, but I worry when any idea goes
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> Ja.  For mainstream media, this particular Time article wasn’t half bad.
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> > I always think the media, the moguls and the Wal-marts will try and spin
> it enough to make a buck off it…
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> Hmmm, so what’s the bad news?  I didn’t even realize there was a way to
> make a buck off of the singularity.  Kewalll…
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> >…Although how you would make money off the singularity I don't know…
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> If you think of one, do share.  As soon as it gets the profit motive behind
> it, the singularity REALLY IS coming.
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> > How about a T-Shirt that says "The Singularity is coming. Get implants!"
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> Eeeexcellent Smithers.
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> Other ideas?  Darren has hit it.  Commercialization is a driving force like
> nothing else, a quantity which has a quality all its own.  Commercialization
> is our friend.  Look what it did for Christmas.
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