Several thoughts spring to mind: I think this might have been inspired in part by an old Seinfeld bit: "It must be hard to be a guy in China. Even if you're a one in a million kind of guy, there's a thousand other guys just like you."
I'd had something over 30 jobs by the time I was 38. I never realized that made me cutting-edge. (Bleeding edge, maybe...) All this new information comes at a time when we have dwindling resources to actually do anything with it, and in at least two key ways: Financial/material, in that more people and more resource-usage and a struggline ecology means more cost; and in what for lack of a better term I'll call creative bandwidth, as we struggle with assimilating the new information. There's an excellent chance that we know, right now, what we need to in order to [pick one: find a source of limitless energy; cure AIDS; cure cancer; feed all the world's hungry, forever; travel tot he stars in a heartbeat; make up your own...], but we don't have the wherewithal to process the information to find the answer, and might not have the physical or fiscal resources to implement these wondrous fixes. Singularity Beings could do all that for us, of course -- assuming they cared, and that we could communicate to them what we needed. Finally (for the moment): as I got to about the three-minute mark, the thought came into my head that "future shock" was real, but it's not what we imagined it would be: The shock is essentially a form of denial. Because we blot all this out in order to continue with our lives, we cling to the ways we've done things in the illusion they'll carry forward and even hark back to imagined past-ways, instead of dealing with the rate at which things change. And in so doing, we insure that some things stay close enough to the same that we can continue with our lives. On 2009-02-20, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > The statistics in this short clip are amazing -- although some of the > predictive ones sound a bit iffy. Do look at this. > Nancy > > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: 2/20/2009 12:17:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time > Subj: Fwd: Did You Know? > > > > > > SONY PLAYED THIS VIDEO AT THEIR EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE THIS YEAR. > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY > > > > > > * > * > = > > > ------------------------------ > You can't always choose whom you love, but you can choose how to find them. > *Start with AOL > Personals.<http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000002> > * > > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
