Over the last 4 months I have completed a HACCP Diploma course, the first of its kind in Canada, they say.<br>
As part of our course we took part in a Canadian Food Inspection Agency conference.<br>
At the end between finals and getting the diplomas I attended a
conference called Improving Human Health at which the keynot speaker
was the Global Head of Business Development for Bayer Cropscience.<br>
As well I note the shut-down of Extropy.<br>
>From these I have some observations:<br>
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We are now in the quiet period where the Robin Hansens's , Ray
Kurzweils, Aubrey-De-Gray's of the world and a thousand others
are moving from small scale academia, and mom-pop businesses, and
consultancies to engage the engine of change and take ownership of the
delivery process to implement the Singularity.<br>
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Yes, some fear like with agbiotech that the dog-in-the -mangers,
luddites and such will derail a future before we can capture it and
each personally surf the wave to<br>
an indeterminate lifespan etc.<br>
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I sense that the "Black Projects" of the world are already well
onstream and see the singularity as a beneficial thing. <br>
The problem is the 6.5 billlion people who are in varying stages
from stone age to energy dependant high tech sophisticated person's<br>
still lack the mindset required to survive in a post-human singularity civilization.<br>
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The 6.5 billion are one huge "omics" project from which will emerge the
new species or should I say genesis of divergent life forms
suited to each of the<br>
niches humanity is headed for.<br>
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A borgian future is no doubt in store for some.<br>
That is simply a networked AI and 100,000 to 1,000,000 biological nodes in human flesh.<br>
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The post singularity, in part will depend upon that which we do not
know such as the universal limitations of matter and
computation <br>
which most likely are just beyond the scope of our peception as we speak.<br>
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Morris<br>
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