The future is here right now, if you can read the signs


	The future is here right now, if you can read the signs

shunyax

10-24-2007 3:28 AM

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10-30-2007 5:00 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

somewhere between the years 2020 to 2035, artificial intelligence will equal human intelligence

If we make it past December 21st, 2012, that is. Not to mention everything else that could go before then. Ugh.

Good clip!

10-30-2007 5:01 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

Should read: go wrong, of course.

1-13-2008 4:49 AM

abailart

I knew you were going to clip this, last February.

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