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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>…On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Darren Greer<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Time magazine cover story on the singularity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>it was a jolt to see all that in something as mainstream as Time magazine. <</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050'>This may be terribly cynical of me, but I worry when any idea goes mainstream</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja. For mainstream media, this particular Time article wasn’t half bad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050'> I always think the media, the moguls and the Wal-marts will try and spin it enough to make a buck off it</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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…<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050'>Although how you would make money off the singularity I don't know</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you think of one, do share. As soon as it gets the profit motive behind it, the singularity REALLY IS coming.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050'> How about a T-Shirt that says "The Singularity is coming. Get implants!"</span></span><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050'>d.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Eeeexcellent Smithers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>