<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; ">>it was a jolt to see all that in something as mainstream as Time magazine. <</span></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; "></span>This may be terribly cynical of me, but I worry when any idea goes mainstream. I always think the media, the moguls and the Wal-marts will try and spin it enough to make a buck off it.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Although how you would make money off the singularity I don't know. How about a T-Shirt that says "The Singularity is coming. Get implants!"</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">d.</span></font></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/18 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Even after all the singularity talk that we have had here for years, it was a jolt to see all that in something as mainstream as Time magazine. It will be interesting to see the letters to the editor on this one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Time magazine cover story on the singularity</span></p></div></div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><h1><span><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-weight:normal">The cover story of the current issue of Time magazine is entitled "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal", its about </span></span><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:normal">Ray Kurzweil and the singularity:</span></span></h1>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html</a></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> John K Clark</p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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