[extropy-chat] Sterling, Wired, and the Singularity

[Damien Broderick]

> > >More likely yet, we live in a dull, self-satisfied,
> > >squalid eddy in history, blundering around with no concept of
> > >progress and no sense of direction. "
>
> > Where is this guy living, camp xray?
>
>Watts?  Elko, Nevada?  Guy needs to wake up and smell the gigaflops.

Well, to be literal-minded about it, the Brucester is living in a very 
tasty part of Austin, so the very air is fragrant with wi-fi gigaflops. 
Meanwhile, other people are making the same sort of point (boo hoo, the 
future didn't turn out like the Jetsons, and now nothing is ever going to 
happen except more terrorism and unemployment poverty and boredom, boo hoo):

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20040908/SCIFI08/TPEntertainment/

Damien Broderick