Re: Ray Kurzweil debates Bill Joy on NPR "Science Friday"Friday at 3 pm

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 19:41:36 MST


On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Timothy Bates wrote:

> on 20/3/00 6:08 AM, hal@finney.org wrote:
> > The Kurzweil/Joy debate is now available in realaudio format from:
> > http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=03/17/2000&PrgID=5
>
> It is interesting (and gratifying) that no one is taking any notice of the
> second most dangerous person in this debate: the female protagonist whose
> argument was that we to stop thinking of progress as good and start
> "thinking collectively".

It would have been more interesting if someone had pointed out to
her that once we are uploaded, we will be able to think *much*
more "collectively" than we currently can... :-)

Robert



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