From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 13:57:09 MST
I just read this very informative, readable paper by Francis Heylighen which
introduced me to the term "ephemeralization". I'm curious if any of you
likewise see the described side effects - information overload,
socio-institutional inertia, increased unpredictability etc., as phenomena
likely to delay singularity? I know some will say an SI's would transcend
such side effects - but the near term development of a SI might not? Also, I
see these problems as sure to manifest in an ever increasing techno-backlash
as more and more people are swayed by the (untenable) luddite appeal of a
return to "simpler times".
Thoughts?
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Info-Overload.pdf
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