What I want to know is who is buying the IP and/or patents of all those
defunct companies and their technologies. The old line capital companies
missed the boat on the internet/microprocessor revolution and rigged an
economic melt down to get control of this technology at bargain prices.
Anonymous range wars where the old capital barons run the "Nestors" off the
land by spooking ("manipulating") the market and pulling capital.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Paine" <
>
To: <
>; <>; "Don Papp"
<
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: Technological Singularity
> Interesting read by Bill Joy, except that he left out the ever important
> NATURE. His assumptions as an elite stratified between eliminating
everyone
> and helping everyone forgets there is a grey world in between these two
> poles -- life will never be purposeless! I do agree with you, Doug, that
> the "true" elite have minimized their needs on technology -- although
> deserted islands are abound, if people don't already live there, then I
bet
> it is *very* hard to live there as a human.
>
> I don't think machines could rule the world, because the world is ruled by
> nature and technology is kinda anti-nature (unless you consider everything
> is nature). Imagine a machine mining for copper (or other elements) when
> nature decides to flash-flood the whole scene, destroying everything. The
> expense for machines to rule the world is too costly. In fact, the
progress
> of technology is still prehistoric at many levels -- I'm still waiting for
> eShades..
>
> on the topic of eShades, a person I work with in related to a person who
> works at Inviso -- although she was quite amazed at a demo model, she
> worries if Inviso will have enough capital to actually produce/release
> them..
>
> hmm.. I wonder how many years of advances in technology has been losted
due
> to the current market slump?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Sutherland" <>
> To: <
>; "Don Papp" <>
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Technological Singularity
>
>
> > Don Papp wrote:
> >
> > > "we are on the edge of [...]the imminent creation by technology of
> > > entities with greater than human intelligence.
> >
> > I wonder if you have read Bill Joy's "why the future doesn't need us"
> > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
> >
> > > We're getting there...
> >
> > Sometimes I wonder if we are already going too far. Genetic engineering
> > and human cloning are pretty scary if you ask me. Technology is lots o
> > fun but when it crossed into "spirit" and "soul" I may end up escaping
> > to some desterted island. Check out this article too ...
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html
> >
> > -- Doug
> >
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