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"I think there's a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM (1943)
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"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years." - Wilbur Wright.
1903 - He helped prove himself wrong.
1909 - Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel.
1915 - The first all-metel aeroplane is built in Germany.
1919 - Alcock & Brown complete the first non-stop Atlantic flight.
This was exponential progress in action. What seemed fantastic at one time soon becomes commonplace a few short years later. And this was a Century ago - technological progress has speeded up significently since then, and is only getting faster.
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more on flight...
"The aeroplane will never fly."
- Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907 (statement made four years after Kitty Hawk)
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jim wrote:more on flight...
"The aeroplane will never fly."
- Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907 (statement made four years after Kitty Hawk) Wouldn'd that be a famously bad postdiction? 
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"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
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"The Singularity is Near" Raymond Kurzweil (2005)
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Sorry, I was just waiting for the lightning to strike me dead.
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jdlaw wrote:"The Singularity is Near" Raymond Kurzweil (2005)
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Sorry, I was just waiting for the lightning to strike me dead. Hehe good one! Got me thinking though.... For all we know, the singularity may have been and gone already .... Imagine one super-fast AI that is created, maybe by DARPA for the US military, and it actually becomes sentient. It then accelerates exponentially (or "hyper-nentially" if its a quantum computer) and leaves this physical realm completely, with only the shell of its original processing system in place and working as the inventors hoped. Just a thought!
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and every once in a while, maybe it decides to take up residence in somebody's cell phone or auto ignition system, all gremlin-like? 
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stendec wrote:Hehe good one!
Got me thinking though....
For all we know, the singularity may have been and gone already ....
Imagine one super-fast AI that is created, maybe by DARPA for the US military, and it actually becomes sentient. It then accelerates exponentially (or "hyper-nentially" if its a quantum computer) and leaves this physical realm completely, with only the shell of its original processing system in place and working as the inventors hoped.
Just a thought! Exactly! Or maybe it happened 4 Billion years ago (in programmed reality time that is) and this universe is the result of a singularity. Hmmmn?
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"I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin.
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MO wrote:and every once in a while, maybe it decides to take up residence in somebody's cell phone or auto ignition system, all gremlin-like? Haha or in the minds of politicians ??
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"who the hell wants sliced bread"---the count of three to the baron of brane---berlin 1895
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