Friday, March 06, 2009

He's Back!

Running a bit behind as it is just a few hours before The Young Lady and her team members do their Odyssey of the Mind presentation. We've been working on this since September. As one of my fellow coaches said yesterday, "Make it stop!" to which one of the other coaches replied "God bless us, everyone!"

Well, time marches on. Like a bad penny, Dave Langford turned up at the beginning of the month even though I did not have time to make a posting. So, once again the cry goes out: Ansible! Ansible!

Vernor Vinge has been quietly airbrushed out of history, as far as the San Francisco Chronicle is concerned: 'Singularity University, which will be housed on the NASA Ames base near Mountain View and begin classes in June, is the brainchild of Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. [...] At the core of the university's mission is Kurzweil's theory of "Technological Singularity," which theorizes that a number of exponentially growing technologies -- such as nanotechnology and biotechnology -- will massively increase human intelligence over the next two decades and fundamentally reshape the future of humanity. In his 2005 book, "The Singularity is Near," Kurzweil famously predicted that artificial intelligence would soon allow machines to improve themselves with unforeseeable consequences.' (3 February) [DB] No mere science fiction writer could have conceived such wonders. Especially not in the 1980s.

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