David Brin said in some interview the URL of which I can't find just now, something to the effect of "Science has become a spectator sport...". He said this in context of the internet and all the science news sites (and blogs, I'm sure). And it certainly seems true. Even Topolog is a commentator on this new "sport".
Now, my idea on this post was not so much to discuss this philosophical concept as the frustration of trying to follow all the stuff that gets continuously thrown up by so many commentators. Kurtzweil's singularity is taking it's time and we seem to be stuck in the event horizon of "...discovery could lead...blahblahblah". Try googling for the title of this post and you'll find
Results 1 - 10 of about 46,300 for "discovery could lead". (0.16 seconds)
entries.
It is a self-appointed task of this author to follow some of these discoveries and find out if any of them do actually lead to...whatever they promised (or carefully didn't promise but definitely hinted towards.) Or at least try to trace a path into the above mentioned singularity...but that may be a bit of a...stretch. Oh dear....
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