On The Media

RK says: “ ...And so, we will become a hybrid of biological and non-biological intelligence.

So over time, the non-biological portion of our “intelligence” will predominate, and that’s basically what we mean by the singularity.”

My question:

What about the “wisdom quotient” that keeps going down hill?

Can humanity survive a thousand fold increase in knowledge and crunching ability ~ while continuing to loose our wisdom & judgement abilities*?

{*as is so evident on our contemporary world business/political stage}

Another thing.

I hear folks like RK talking (even with his good track record), he sounds like he believes our Earth is a limitless cornucopia of resources and innovations waiting to happen. Never mind the growing monsters in the back room.

Their seems to be a willful ignorance toward down to Earth limitations.

Smart and accomplished and rich as Kurzweil may be, he doesn’t make sense when viewed against the backdrop of today’s world news.

I listened to the rebroadcast of this show with a different perception, because in between times, my husband had cardiac arrest, was dead for 10 minutes with a teenage lifeguard performing CPR until the lifesquad arrived and shocked him back to life, and now has an implanted defibrillator/pacemaker.

It is simultaneously reassuring to know that a computer is monitoring his every heartbeat and stands ready to shock his heart into a normal rhythm if necessary, and terrifying to think that his life is dependent upon a computer...in fact, I think of this every time my desktop computer stalls or crashes.

But mostly, the gratitude for this second chance outweighs the terror. And I can't even imagine what this computer (the size of a facial powder compact) will look like in 8 years when he needs to have it replaced.

One of the commentators was talking about how endless clicking on links in seach of endless information is a negative thing.

Perhaps its just a new way of learning? When I tried to learn science before Wikipedia in 1997 my first time through college, I had a very difficult time when I encountered ideas that were unfamiliar. I had to spend a lot of time jumping around my text book or just try to continue learning without completely understanding what the text was talking about. My second time through college, I used Wikipedia and it was a lifesaver. I could click on an unfamiliar concept and come back to the original concpt with a fuller understanding.

The Kurzweil world is a perversion of nature and the media a perverion of what investigative reporting should be. Anyone hear a question of ethics, morals, what a planet would look like if no one died? Anyone hear a question about the nature of most diseases, preventable as they as we see in the new documentary, Processed People, www.processedpeople.com

A cyborg world? What do Christian and Jewish leaders think of this? Kurzweil should take a course at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Foundation as there, he will learn that ALL disease is man-made and starts with an idea. That idea is how humans have used the word, "dominion," for centuries as meaning we can use and exploit the planet, as we have, with exactly the global results we are experiencing.

Kurzweil has had WAY TOO much airtime when others working for true health and peace have had none.

We can attain optimal health and longer lives without becoming cyborgs.

www.treeoflife.nu www.plantbasednutrition.org www.heartattackproof.com

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." --Albert Einstein.

It seems strange that we have, in the past fifty years, only extended that gap. The depth of that gap can be realised by the aching gulf between the desperately poor and the insanely rich. Implementing anything like what Kurzweil predicts will not only make them worlds apart, but create a dreadful precedent to keep them that way.

Should we not explore our humanity in depth before we undertake a biased and vain "improvement" of it via technology?

I completely agree with Laura Slitt that this fascination with technocracy is a perverted disease of essentially sick people who have last touch with the beauty and sacredness of life and nature.

However, I would go further and ask WHY does Kurzweil get so much airtime, and why are pharmaceutical drugs being rammed down the throats of millions of people - If something is a certain way, it is because the powerful elite wants it to be that way as a way of enslaving and exploiting and consolidating their power base. This is, I would say, the reason that Kurzweil is given so much airtime, and people who would talk about compassion and respect for all life, eating a plant-based diet and promoting small-scale gardens instead of mass techno-corporate perversion of nature are locked out of the discussion and airwaves.

How strange the resistance to new hypothesis can be!

I remember how Leonardo da Vinci had to flee in France to avoid inquisition, after all he had studied and drawn plans for airflight and even helicopters; Jules Verne wrote novels about a submarine that worked with a mysterious energy source (nuclëar?!) that allowed to live in the seas and oh! horror! a voyage to the Moon; and Mary Shelly's

Dr. Frankeinstein.

Since those who beleived in a flat Earth around which the univers circumvulated all died, I do accept that we have not seen anything yet and the future mutations need to be anticipated, ask dinosaures if they figured they would vanished and be replaced by Naked Apes?