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Rapture For The Geeks

Rapture Updates

October 6, 2009

News items of possible interest to fans of Rapture For The Geeks:

IBM Blue Brain’s Henry Markram at TED on Building An Artificial Brain (video);
Artificial Brain ‘10 years Away’ – A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, so says Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, at the [...]

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If Microsoft’s EULA Applied To Books

December 10, 2008

For instance if you grow older and more mature, develop a mental illness, change your diet, or receive any artificial limbs or joints, pacemakers, implants, or organ transplants, then you may need to reactivate your license before you will be allowed to reaccess the book.

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Mothers Against World Of Warcraft

August 25, 2008

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Mothers Against World of Warcraft
(Excerpted from Rapture For The Geeks, by Richard Dooling.)
Let’s say that the Singularity is really coming, and let’s say it’s powered by Moore’s Law and Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns. Call the Technological Singularity a cardinal virtue or a fatal flaw: [...]

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