Re: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (x-post)
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Although I think maybe his forecast was a bit to soon (he says in 20 years we will see some stuff showing up), I think it's more like 60 years. Good thing we are young and will live to see the day (the title of the book is talking to people who are currently 45yrs++) and I think maybe mr. Kurtzweil knew this when writing, but exagerated his claims to give old people hope (his core customer, cause young people usually dont care much about aging, death, etc)
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1) Don't forget Kurzweil is pushing 60 himself
2) I think you underestimate the man if you think he would lie throughout multiple books to sell a few more copies/products. His predictions in the past have been spot on so far (like the whole Deep Blue thing for example).
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