Re: Why will we reach the singularity?

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 00:08:30 MST

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    "Joao Magalhaes" <joao.magalhaes@fundp.ac.be> Wrote:

    >It's true breakthroughs have been made in
    > biology and medicine, such as the Human
    > Genome Project, but, shit, we haven't even cured AIDS

    Medicine has to be the most disappointing science, it's been around for
    thousands of years but until about 1900 did more harm than good with its
    quack "cures". Even today there hasn't been a really major breakthrough
    since the discovery of Penicillin and that was more than half a century ago.
    It's surprising too; we know vastly more biology than we did then but for
    some reason can't translate it into cures.

            John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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