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transhumanism. I also find that often missing is aesthetics and
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Stefano
Vaj<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B> World
Transhumanist Association Discussion List; cosmic-engineers@googlegroups.com;
ExI chat list; technoprogressive@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ExI] IEEE
on the Singularity<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Very, very, very interesting:<BR><A
href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/static/singularity">http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/static/singularity</A><BR><BR>I
would say a must reading for anybody interested in the subject.<BR><BR>What is
substantially omitted is any discussion of the kind of societal mobilisation and
cultural pre-conditions required to achieve and maintain a given pace of
technological progress, let alone a technological "singularity".<BR><BR>--
<BR>Stefano Vaj<BR><BR></BODY></HTML>