Saw Transcendent Man Live  with Abe and Jer of Ultraweekend.net and Eliezer,  Wednesday night.  While I think there's a lot of social changes that need to happen before the Utopian Singularity that I think RayKurzweil envisions, the live discussion was a good way to start the discussion of what the future is going to bring about. It also wasn't as I feel propaganda ridden and so assertive of this Utopian future as the film was.  Which was nice.   I don't have any doubt that the technology will get there.  I don't doubt the ability for humans to get to that point. What I wonder is are we at the right point as a society to get there?  I think the answer is no. Before we can get to that point, we need a social revolution.  I think that would need to happen before anything else.



I will comment on this more later but I have work to do!