(Image looted from Lifeboat.com)Dr Brin discusses the Singularity with its signposts and nightmares.
Hurrying or slowing it may be possible, but trying to do one might do the other in my opinion. He hammers on a point that always bothers me about calls from the extremes to use the coercion of government to shut off one avenue of research or another (left and right): in most stories and real life disasters it's the hidden, secret knowledge that spirals out of control and eats everyone's lunch.
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