posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 2:00 PM
by
Endie
I am the most important thinker writing today
It's true. I am the most important thinker writing today.
Tyler Cowen, writing about Ray Kurzweil, said that he is the most important thinker today in expected value terms, when he writes about his expectation that nanotech, genetics and robotics will, within the next century, lead to us becoming advanced cyborgs, our brains being capable of upload into a computer's memory, etc etc. He doesn't think that Kurzweil's predictions will happen, but says that they are so potentially important that his writing must be known of by everyone.
Well, that may have been enough to make you the "most important thinker today" on September 21, 2005, but times have changed in the world of Important Thinking, and I am prepared to move the debate on. Prepare yourself for a step-change. A quantum leap. A paradigmatic shift.
I am prepared to endorse the entire set of Kurweil's predictions. We will, indeed, become cyborg simulacrums with superpowers and Neuromancer-thingies. And, what is more, we will all have space monkeys for companions. Ninja space-monkeys.
Top that, nano-boy.