Best Things We'll Say to Our Grandkids(wired.com)
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Best Things We'll Say to Our Grandkids
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-10/st_best
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Apparently, the Chinese in #6 is slightly wrong, and the result of a Bablefish translation: http://www.hanzismatter.com/2009/09/wired-magazine-1710.html
Even if it is slightly incorrect, it's still my favorite one.
"7. Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium."
What?!?!?!?
I don't know what kind of freaky terminator like future he's planning to live in 40 years from now but he can count me out!
What?!?!?!?
I don't know what kind of freaky terminator like future he's planning to live in 40 years from now but he can count me out!
"It may seem like AI right now is just data mining using brute force search algorithms for increasingly specialized problems. However, AI is just a name for what we haven't discovered yet. Within 10 years we will have trans-human computer intelligence! Just look at these exponential graphs! You will be able to upload your brain and we're going to start unfreezing some of these rotting heads! The singularity will arrive much sooner than you think, grandson!"
* groan
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