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Day: February 12, 2011

  • George Rebane Readers know that one of the dominant themes of RR has been the Singularity (see the RR Singularity category for more).  As a technologist and AI researcher I have been a Singularitarian for most of my life.  Ray Kurzweil has done civilization the service of becoming the most dominant and credible spokesman for…

  • George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my 12feb 2011 Union column published today in its print and online version here.] Some of us recall the time of ‘population bombs’, ‘megatrends’, and the coming ice age thawing into ‘hothouse earth’.  The 1970s were a bleak time – a lost war, economy in stagflation, the…