Red Mosquito • View topic - Documentary: Transcendent Man (Ray Kurzweil)

Farmer John · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:57 pm

This both blew my mind and scared the shit out of me.

Even if you don't like the guy or believe all of his theories, it's still fascinating as hell.

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:06 pm

Makes for interesting viewing. I don't think the problem with many of the guy's ideas is that they're far fetched, but that the technological utopia he preaches will never come about because for a bunch of reasons the poorest places on earth keep failing to benefit from all these technological wonders.

EllisEamos · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:12 pm

knowing of his work and ideas beforehand doesn't change the fact that he's brilliant.

Skitch Patterson · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:15 pm

Insert our lady peace reference

Farmer John · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:34 pm

Owl_Farmer wrote:

Makes for interesting viewing. I don't think the problem with many of the guy's ideas is that they're far fetched, but that the technological utopia he preaches will never come about because for a bunch of reasons the poorest places on earth keep failing to benefit from all these technological wonders.

I'm sure the supercomputers will be able to figure that out.

Riot Actor 25 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:14 am

I like his keyboards.

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:52 am

Perhaps he's brilliant in some aspects but he's often wrong:

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/ ... onary.html

mastaflatch · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:54 am

Riot Actor 25 wrote:

I like his keyboards.

Pink Floyd used some of his

Spoiler: show: on A Momentary Lapse of Reason

EllisEamos · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:35 am

corduroy_blazer wrote:

Perhaps he's brilliant in some aspects but he's often wrong:

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/ ... onary.html

his "live forever" dogma is where i draw the line on his brilliance... but massimo has a pretty sour approach to the guy.

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:57 am

He's often right as well. So it goes in the business of predicting...

Rebar · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:44 am

So a guy runs around saying technology is going to advance faster in the next forty years than it ever has? Wow, dudes a genius.

EllisEamos · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:51 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

So a guy runs around saying technology is going to advance faster in the next forty years than it ever has? Wow, dudes a genius.

its a bold prediction.

Skitch Patterson · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:03 pm

Documentary: Transcendent Man (Ray Kurzweil)

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