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Amazing! by Fussbett 05/29/2009, 11:56am PDT
I'm one paragraph in and loving it!

Ray Kurzweil wrote:

I appreciate your bringing my ideas to your readership. However, there are numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations in Daniel Lyons’ story. For example, of the many accurate predictions for the year 2009 that I wrote in my book The Age of Spiritual Machines, written in the late 1990s, only three are listed in the sidebar “Kurzweil’s Crystal Ball” while a larger number are listed as “false.” Of these “false” predictions, a number are in fact true, and others are only a few years away. For example, “Computers will be commonly embedded in clothing and jewelry” is listed as false. When I wrote this prediction, portable computers were large heavy devices carried under your arm. Today they are indeed embedded in shirt pockets, jacket pockets, and hung from belt loops.

You see, in 1990, computers were only embedded in bags, briefcases, or desks. He predicted computers would get smaller, and pretends to not know what he meant be "embedded"! That takes some balls.

Colorful iPod nano models are worn on blouses as jewelry pins, health monitors are woven into undergarments, there are now computers in hearing aids, and there are many other examples.

Other examples too numerous to list here, and probably far better than iPod nanos being worn as jewelry pins (FUCKING WHO IS DOING THAT? Just because one idiot did it at PAX...) I love that he's stretching his examples so thin as to reach "computers in heart monitors". Ray! Ray! There were computers in WRISTWATCHES, which are actual jewelery and not medical equipment, in the FUCKING 1980s!!!

I'm glad I made a long bet against this man, however, I feel the contest could be marred by protests from his elastic definitions. He could claim that "machine intelligence" obviously includes humans who have had cybernetic implants. Like pacemakers, for example.
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Ray Kurzweil is a whinging faggot by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/29/2009, 11:33am PDT NEW
    Amazing! by Fussbett 05/29/2009, 11:56am PDT NEW
    <i>Virtually everyone.</i> HAHAHahahahHAhahah by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/29/2009, 12:12pm PDT NEW
        You're hating on the writer, not Kurzweil there. by Fussbett 05/29/2009, 12:35pm PDT NEW
            Fuck, in 1989 I would have killed for the opportunity to be mocked for BBSing. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/29/2009, 3:02pm PDT NEW
                we can mock you for it NOW NT by col.schickn 05/29/2009, 3:03pm PDT NEW
                Still waiting for Get Lamp to come out. :( NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/29/2009, 3:43pm PDT NEW
 
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