{"id":14,"date":"2012-03-18T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appaloosaa.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/18\/signs-of-the-times-could-the-human-industrial-singularity-be-near\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:34:08","slug":"signs-of-the-times-could-the-human-industrial-singularity-be-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Times: Could The Human-Industrial “Singularity” Be Near?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me be clear, this is not my article!\u00a0 An excerpt is included here because of it’s ‘no holds barred’ approach in presenting one person’s thoughts about the state of humanity relative to the industrial world which\u00a0we are all dependent on.\u00a0 There has been NO attempt to verify the purported facts in the article although some statements seem to be supported by recognizable externally\u00a0links.\u00a0 Examining our acceptance of this reality seems to me to be the responsible approach to the demands we make on this worldwide industrial\u00a0system. Jim<\/span><\/p>\n

Signs of the Times: Could The Human-Industrial \u201cSingularity\u201d Be\u00a0Near?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Posted by: cctracker<\/strong> | March 18, 2012 <\/small><\/p>\n

Some weeks ago we were dealing with \u201cfaith and science\u201d in my class. For a few days I was carrying around a copy of a big, fat book by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe singularity\u201d is Kurzweil\u2019s name for a moment coming our way in the not-so-distant future when the pace of technological progress reaches a critical breakaway point. Humans and machines merge and in a sudden, \u2018whoosh\u2019 of geometric progressions we can scarcely imagine now, human life is utterly transformed.<\/p>\n

Mostly, I find the material terrifying.<\/p>\n

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More on that in a future post; It puts me in a winter mind and I\u2019m ready for spring.\u00a0But a series of articles and ongoing news about Apple Computer in the NY Times, despite sounding dark chords that remind me of Kursweil\u2019s vision, also have me wondering whether a much more hopeful breakaway point in human history might be approaching.\u00a0 Read the complete article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me be clear, this is not my article!\u00a0 An excerpt is included here because of it’s ‘no holds barred’ approach in presenting one person’s thoughts about the state of humanity relative to the industrial world which\u00a0we are all dependent on.\u00a0 There has been NO attempt to verify the purported facts in the article although … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appaloosaas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}