Michael Cook, editor of Mercatornet, discusses the new Terminator movie, the attractiveness of human-machine hybrids ('transhumanity'), the Belbury-esque (cf. C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength) establishment of Singularity University, and other pipe dreams of such scientism advocates as Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is near.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Better a Machine than Dead
Michael Cook, editor of Mercatornet, discusses the new Terminator movie, the attractiveness of human-machine hybrids ('transhumanity'), the Belbury-esque (cf. C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength) establishment of Singularity University, and other pipe dreams of such scientism advocates as Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is near.
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WOW! Where have I been? In some perverse way I have generally liked the Terminator series. I do not know if I will take this latest chapter in however the article by Cook on Kurzweil and Singularity blows me away. It is like we know "it" is/was coming but 2045, wow. wow.
I am left with the question, are there more than one John Connor out there in this battle for humanity?
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