http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2003/08/23/technology-part-deux/ Random articles, thoughts, ideas, musings, rantings, and more from me!! Sun, 20 May 2012 00:11:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2003/08/23/technology-part-deux/#comment-8 Wed, 24 May 2006 02:18:08 +0000 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2003/08/23/technology-part-deux/#comment-8 [...] I’ve been reading the book “The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil, which Holly and Rick gave me for Christmas. It’s all about the accelerating rate of technology and what will happen when that rate approaches infinity (the singularity). This is something I discussed in one of my old rants from 2003 (Part 1, Part 2). I speculated that this infinite rate could be reached when we can manipulate and travel in time. Since an actual rate of infinity seems impossible, would we be able to differentiate between close to infinity and really really close to infinity? Would our perception of time change as technologies are developed at such an absurd rate? [...] […] I’ve been reading the book “The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil, which Holly and Rick gave me for Christmas. It’s all about the accelerating rate of technology and what will happen when that rate approaches infinity (the singularity). This is something I discussed in one of my old rants from 2003 (Part 1, Part 2). I speculated that this infinite rate could be reached when we can manipulate and travel in time. Since an actual rate of infinity seems impossible, would we be able to differentiate between close to infinity and really really close to infinity? Would our perception of time change as technologies are developed at such an absurd rate? […]

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