<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">>Commercialization is our friend. Look what it did for Christmas.<</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">If you can sell Santa Claus and Justin Beiber, you can sell anything.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">d.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></p><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"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">…On Behalf Of </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Darren Greer<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Time magazine cover story on the singularity</span></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1F497D">></span></span><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1F497D">>it was a jolt to see all that in something as mainstream as Time magazine. <</span></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">></span></span><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#500050">This may be terribly cynical of me, but I worry when any idea goes mainstream</span></span><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ja. For mainstream media, this particular Time article wasn’t half bad.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">></span></span><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">…</span></span><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></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">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…</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span></span><span><span style="color:#500050">Although how you would make money off the singularity I don't know</span></span><span><span style="color:#1F497D">…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#1F497D">If you think of one, do share. As soon as it gets the profit motive behind it, the singularity REALLY IS coming.</span></span></p>
<div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#1F497D">></span></span><span><span style="color:#500050"> How about a T-Shirt that says "The Singularity is coming. Get implants!"</span></span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span><span style="color:#500050">d.</span></span><span><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Eeeexcellent Smithers.</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">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.</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>
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