The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

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The Singularity Is Nearby Ray Kurzweil

• Famous quotes from the dyna-sapiens who
• reviewed this book at the
• NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group
• (BCIG)
• February 23, 2006
• Book Club Meeting
• Turn up your speakers!

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Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Greetings people of earth!
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Im not a singularitarian. Actually Im a cyborg.
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Take me to your Reader!
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Moores Law is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Warning! Warning! Computation limits have been
reached!
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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If you read all the way through the book, Im
actually mentioned on page 279.
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Whenever you create order, you use up energy.
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Hi. Im one thousand, three hundred, two
hundred forty-one years old.
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden
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Life flows on within you and without you.
Surrender to the Singularity.
Bill Moore
Melanie Swan
February 2006 BCIG Book Club Presenters Would
you ride in a space ship with this crew? The
Singularity is closer than you can imagine!
Kim Thompson
Jim DeLeo
Ben Goertzel
Carl Leonard
Bruce Klein
Mo Al-Ubaydli
Chuck Selden