September 22nd, 2005 by Jemaleddin Cole

Ray Kurzweil, noted sci­en­tist, author and inven­tor, is pre­dict­ing that the sin­gu­lar­ity will occur in 2045. For those not up on sci­ence fic­tion, the sin­gu­lar­ity is the moment in the future when tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments begin to move the human race into a future we cannot pre­dict, let alone com­pre­hend. Tape back­ups of brains, cyber­netic intel­li­gence, android bodies and genetic mod­i­fi­ca­tions that allow you to grow wings or tails - basi­cally a new under­stand­ing of what it means to be human, and a com­pletely dif­fer­ent def­i­n­i­tion what it means to be alive.

So I was explain­ing all of these crazy pos­si­ble futures to my wife, and she got pretty freaked out. I think she’s pretty happy with human­ity just the way it is. I, as a mis­an­thropic human­ist in the spirit of Kurt Von­negut, think human­ity can use all the help it can get.

But there is some­thing that ter­ri­fies me about Kurzweil’s bold theory of the future: his web­site is using frames and tables for layout.

There. I said it. Now what­ever foul robotic intel­li­gences he’s allied him­self with will come and destroy me. But the world must know: the future is full of bad HTML!

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