Sunday, November 24, 2013
M. Edwards on Amazon.co.uk us ranting about eternal life for humanity
Ray Kurzweil is using his MIT affiliation to sell a science
fiction that is an absolute dystopia and some people of course take that for
science, as should be expected from all MIT scholars.
But it is no science at all. Jeff Hawkins and Jaron Lanier give the necessary information to answer this dystopia, and we should think of what Wendy Hiu Kyong Chun says too (not covered in this paper) on the interfaced individual or subject. Here we would lmike to think of several dangers in Kurzweil’s painting of the future.
1- These nanobots of his will be intelligent, hence connected and they will communicate among themselves within our body and within a certain distance outside our body and they will always be controlled by the motherboard of their inventors. That’s more than Big Brother and his wired TVs. That’s even more than what Snowden revealed. [...]
But it is no science at all. Jeff Hawkins and Jaron Lanier give the necessary information to answer this dystopia, and we should think of what Wendy Hiu Kyong Chun says too (not covered in this paper) on the interfaced individual or subject. Here we would lmike to think of several dangers in Kurzweil’s painting of the future.
1- These nanobots of his will be intelligent, hence connected and they will communicate among themselves within our body and within a certain distance outside our body and they will always be controlled by the motherboard of their inventors. That’s more than Big Brother and his wired TVs. That’s even more than what Snowden revealed. [...]
More Info: A sorry "debate” is developing on Amazon.co.uk on my
review of Kurzweil’s book Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever.
Publication Date: Nov 26,
2013
Publisher: Editions
La Dondaine
Location: Olliergues France
Research Interests:
Digital
Subjectivity, Interfaced
Human, Eternal Life
of Human, Demographics,Singularity
Theory, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Hawkins, Ray Kurzweil,
and Nanobots
Table of Contents
1. RAY
KURZWEIL – WHEN COMPUTERS EXCEED HUMAN INTELLIGENCE, THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL
MACHINES – 1999 – Review in May 2012
2. RAY KURZWEIL – THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR – 2006 – Review August 2011
3. RAY
KURZWEIL – TERRY CROSSMAN, MD – TRANSCEND, NINE STEPS TO LIVING WELL FOREVER –
2009 – Review August 2011
4.
RAY
KURZWEIL – HOW TO CREATE A MIND – 2012
5.
Kurzweil still has some work
to do to become realistic
6.
JEFF
HAWKINS – ON INTELLIGENCE – 2004
7. ONE HALF A
MANIFESTO By Jaron
Lanier
Critical reading of the basic principals of Cybernetic Totalism (Jacques
COULARDEAU)
8.
JARON
LANIER – YOU ARE NOT A GADGET – 2010-2011
9.
AMAZON.CO.UK
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