Subj : Guest:  Ray Kurzweil
To   : August Abolins
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Wed Mar 07 2001 12:29 pm

August Abolins wrote in a message to All:

 AA> Pamela Wallin's Talk TV
 AA> On CTV Sundays at 5:00 p.m.

 AA> Also on CTV's talktv digital network
 AA> Saturdays & Sundays at 10:00 p.m.,
 AA> 4:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

 AA> SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 10 & 11, 2001

 AA> PLEASE NOTE:  PAMELA WALLIN'S TALKTV WILL ONLY BE SEEN ON THE
 AA> TALKTV NETWORK THIS WEEK.

Dunno what this is,  sounds like some cable thingy (and I don't have cable 
here.  Or a dish.).

 AA> Guest:  Ray Kurzweil

 AA> In the next couple of decades, computers will achieve something 
 AA> like "conscious" intelligence - the ability to understand and 
 AA> reason like humans.  And, according to computer scientist and 
 AA> inventor Ray Kurzweil, some of us will be downloading our brains 
 AA> into computers in the ultimate "man meets machine" scenario. 
 AA> Kurzweil joins us to discuss his book, The Age of Spiritual 
 AA> Machines:  When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, and the 
 AA> endless possibilities that the future holds.

Not bloody likely,  anytime soon if at all.

For a real good discussion of this,  James P. Hogan has a book out that talks 
it up extensively,  his only nonfiction publication I'm aware of,  though the 
title escapes me at the moment.  I got it from the local library.

--- 
 * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615)

.