[extropy-chat] Futures Past

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Oct 9, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 01:23 PM 10/9/2005 -0400, Harvey wrote:
>
>> People are still expecting the singularity within a decade.  It 
>> simply won't happen.  Everybody will think I am too pessimistic now.  
>> And then everyone will deny making these predictions 10 years from 
>> now.
>
> My take in the US edition of THE SPIKE (revised 2000, published 2001) 
> was this, at the close of my final chapter:

These predictions seem much more reasonable to me.

Do you have people agreeing with your timelines?  Or do you find most 
transhumanists telling you that you are too conservative?

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Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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