A book I desperately need to read!
October 13, 2006 by Dewayne Mikkelson
This book sounds like something that I need to read to brighten up my rather dismal view of the future that I have had for the past year or so.
Fred C. Ikle, one of America’s foremost strategic thinkers, in his latest book “Annihilation from Within” (Columbia University Press), sees the ever-faster advances in brain science and computers merging to build superhuman intelligence systems. Brain-computer-interface (BCI) research projects are proliferating among universities in the G-8 major industrial countries and China. And when this quest succeeds, Mr. Ikle says it will trump the latest supercomputers (already up to 73 trillion operations per second) and the best human experts.
Sounds like a bummer. Did get a post title in my feed reader, but that was just the first words of the first sentence, so…
I’ve heard a lot about Zoho Virtual Office On-Demand. Looks impressive. Maybe that works?
Where have the great blogheader photos gone? I kinda liked those…
Oh, and as for the post itself, I love these way-out excercices in futuristic thinking. It’s gonna get great, but not anytime soon I fear. Better live healthy then so we get to see the most of it happen.