<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 7:57 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Of course, this view of the future assumes that humans survive the AGI<br>apocalypse.</font></i></blockquote><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>True.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> I don't think anybody is capable of making a prediction worth a damn about what things will be like 50 months from now, let alone 50 years, except that things will be very very different. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span> </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Swarm Intelligence<br>
Kevin Kelly Oct 12, 2026<br>
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<<a href="https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/swarm-intelligence" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/swarm-intelligence</a>><br>
Quotes:<br>
Fifty years from now most AI is invisible. There is nothing to see. It<br>
is sort of like air – always there, always on, everywhere. Something<br>
you need and use but take for granted. AI is so prevalent we become<br>
blind to it.<br>
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So an average day 50 years from now in this swarm AI world, we will<br>
not be talking about AI. We will hardly see it. It will be everywhere,<br>
embedded into everything. We will have one or two personal agents we<br>
depend on and like; these exoselves might be like our twins or<br>
partners, but beyond them, we won’t be encountering AI. We’ll just<br>
encounter the world – cars, tools, kitchens, planes, offices, doors,<br>
screens – and that world has AI embedded into every bit of it.<br>
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