On Don’s recommendation, I’m reading Ray Kurzweil’s book, THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, which is all about the exponential growth of technology, and humans transcending their biology. Here’s a good beginning essay on the Law of Accelerating returns to give you a feel for the book. I can’t read the book without thinking about Terminator 2. these are my notes.
Also: the Future of Western College is uncertain. But based on the the Provost’s Report, it don’t look good.
And: is religious belief a function of evolution? I’ve always thought, and this guy does too, that if there is an eternal heaven where we can live forever in tranquility, it probably resembles something more like a hell.
Eternity is a long, long time, you know.
corey informs me:
T2 was JUDGMENT DAY! …james cameron masterpiece of the early 90s
(with linda hamilton)
T3 was RISE OF THE MACHINES…two-bit nobody attempt to further the
franchise Cameron built (no linda hamilton)
oops!
change is good ?
I love the song “We Make Great Pets” and no one ever knows what I’m talking about.
(Yes, I want to live a lot longer than I will, but you know, something about the heat death of the universe is just scary.)
Will there be another race
To come along and take over for us?
Maybe martians could do
Better than we’ve done
We’ll make great pets!
We’ll make great pets!
My friend says we’re like the dinosaurs
Only we are doing ourselves in
Much faster than they
Ever did
I couldn’t stand it. I went and bought it from iTunes.