False premise. Try again.
I think he's referring to information technology and computers in general. Not literally meaning "everything".
Nevertheless, computer technology and nano-technology are obviously intricately linked in a feedback loop, whereby the more one advances the more it helps the other advance.
Personally, I am optimistic about technology, but I am pessimistic about our economics.
The U.S. is seriously ruining it's future with it's ridiculously out of control defecit spending of the government threatening to destroy our civilization from the inside out. Then combine this with the insanely out of control capitalism profiting the very wealthy more and more, which along with fuel prices, is shortly bringing about "post modern" legalized slavery.
Those with "old wealth" in America refuse to make any transition to a more modern adn fair form of economics, and for those with "new wealth" it is too tempting for them to turn around and go the way of the "old wealth" people, using money and technology for monopolizing and manipulating, instead of liberation.
Where is the money for the U.S. deficit? The reality is the only people who have the money to pay for the deficit are the top 10% wealthy people. They have pocketed most of the wealth of the entire nation and make 10 or 20 million per year, up to billions per year in some cases, and then want to complain if htey have to pay another million worth of taxes.
It's just like Lords and Ladies in feudalism (unconstitutional, BTW, read it,) but the only difference is we don't "call" them "Dukes, Earls, or Lords and ladies" but they get all the same privilidges: They get to own everything and tell everyone else what to do...
Additionally, as long as people insist on flocking to movie theatres and football games to make more people into multi-millionaires for no reason, this problem will only get worse and worse, until some limit is reached and the entire nation falls apart or reaches a revolution...
There should not be CEOs in any nation who make more personal annual income than the entire U.S. congress combined, but there are several in the U.S. alone.
There is no other word for this except to call it what it is, which is a legalized form of slavery, whereby a few people own everyone else, whether or not everyone else realizes it....
flyingbuttressman
26th January 2011 - 08:52 PM
QUOTE (Quantum Chaos+Jan 26 2011, 03:47 PM)
Just look at what has happened over time in our civilization. The rate of change in our world has not been a smooth line but it continues to increase and will do so overall for at least the rest of our natural lifetime. We as a whole system are about to a point when tech progress becomes blindingly fast.
What data points are you using? What time scale are you looking at?
Yes, we are in the middle of the biggest tech boom in history, but future innovation is not a sure thing. We could hit a wall 10, 20 or 30 years from now. Playing around with graphs isn't going to predict the future.
flyingbuttressman
26th January 2011 - 09:01 PM
QUOTE (Quantum_Conundrum+Jan 26 2011, 03:48 PM)
The U.S. is seriously ruining it's future with it's ridiculously out of control defecit spending of the government threatening to destroy our civilization from the inside out. Then combine this with the insanely out of control capitalism profiting the very wealthy more and more, which along with fuel prices, is shortly bringing about "post modern" legalized slavery.
You seem to forget that a large percentage of the national debt was created by two individuals withe names Reagan and Bush.
Maybe your bitching and moaning has more to do with the fact that Democrats are spending money, as opposed to Republicans. Where were all the budget conscious Americans BEFORE Obama got into office? Were they asleep?
Quantum Chaos
26th January 2011 - 09:16 PM
I believe the economy could be transformed by available technology right now. There are several systems that would save tons of resources.
Quantum_Conundrum
26th January 2011 - 09:24 PM
QUOTE (flyingbuttressman+Jan 26 2011, 04:01 PM)
You seem to forget that a large percentage of the national debt was created by two individuals withe names Reagan and Bush.
Maybe your bitching and moaning has more to do with the fact that Democrats are spending money, as opposed to Republicans. Where were all the budget conscious Americans BEFORE Obama got into office? Were they asleep?
FBM:
I've been complaining about the over spending for most of my life.
I used to go around trying to explain to people just how big a trillion dollars is and how bad the debt is, but nobody gets it so I mostly gave up.
I along with the people i worked with at the time knew the economy was in trouble back in 2006. We knew about how bad the financial sector had become even then, because our company was selling people IRAs with 4.5% interest when the "big boys" on wallstreet were giving only about 1%. These companies knew they were broke even back then. They had to know, because WE knew they were broke...
The federal government is broke. The deficit is so high now that they'd have to tax another 10% of GDP just to break even again, and the ONLY way they could get that is to raise taxes on the top 10% of people SUBSTANTIALLY. I'm talking basicly double digit tax increase on the top 10% wealthy people, or they will NOT ever break even again....and it needs to be done within a few years, or the interest will become so high that it won't be possible at all...
It doesn't matter who's in the government, they always put it off another 4 or 6 years because the wealthy and the special interest groups own them.
At some point the millionaires and billionaires are going to have to eat it.
Quantum Chaos
26th January 2011 - 09:29 PM
With recent advances in quantum computing like the one with silicon. Indicate that we will have computers that exponentially increase in number of possible outcomes every quantum bit. That means certain performance would double for every new fundamental unit. It almost certainly suggests that this singularity of technology will continue for awhile.
flyingbuttressman
26th January 2011 - 09:42 PM
QUOTE (Quantum Chaos+Jan 26 2011, 04:29 PM)
With recent advances in quantum computing like the one with silicon. Indicate that we will have computers that exponentially increase in number of possible outcomes every quantum bit. That means certain performance would double for every new fundamental unit. It almost certainly suggests that this singularity of technology will continue for awhile.
We'll have to see what happens, won't we?
Quantum_Conundrum
27th January 2011 - 12:36 AM
Look here: This is impressive automated assembly using modular structural components.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-roboti...wers-video.html
flyingbuttressman
27th January 2011 - 01:45 AM
QUOTE (Quantum_Conundrum+Jan 26 2011, 07:36 PM)
Look here: This is impressive automated assembly using modular structural components.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-roboti...wers-video.html
Please don't tell me that you think this is relevant to your self-assembly wanking.
flyingbuttressman
27th January 2011 - 01:58 AM
QUOTE (Quantum_Conundrum+Jan 26 2011, 04:24 PM)
It doesn't matter who's in the government, they always put it off another 4 or 6 years because the wealthy and the special interest groups own them.
At some point the millionaires and billionaires are going to have to eat it.
What point is that? The government is bought and paid for by the wealthy. I don't really see that changing any time soon.
Here's my solution to everyone's problems: cut military spending in half. That's $300+ billion saved per year. There's really no need to outspend the rest of the world combined. Short of a major economic catastrophe, I don't think the major powers of the world would attempt any kind of military action against each other. Plus, our massive national debt ensures that our primary rival, China, has nothing to gain from damaging our economy.
Would you consider yourself a Libertarian by any chance?
Quantum_Conundrum
27th January 2011 - 10:38 PM
QUOTE (flyingbuttressman+Jan 26 2011, 08:58 PM)
What point is that? The government is bought and paid for by the wealthy. I don't really see that changing any time soon.
Only in terms of paper.
The wealthy got wealthy by exploiting the average, through over-charging and under-paying.
After all, that's what capitalism is all about, especially once you either put your competitors out of business, or form oligopolies with existing competitors to maintain status quo.
flyingbuttressman
27th January 2011 - 11:01 PM
QUOTE (Quantum_Conundrum+Jan 27 2011, 05:38 PM)
Only in terms of paper.
The wealthy got wealthy by exploiting the average, through over-charging and under-paying.
After all, that's what capitalism is all about, especially once you either put your competitors out of business, or form oligopolies with existing competitors to maintain status quo.
The status quo is stability. Stability is what civilizations are built on. You seem to have a problem with capitalism, but you have no alternative solution.
Capracus
31st October 2011 - 06:33 AM
Self taught robot.
QUOTE
One of Eureqa's initial achievements was identifying the basic laws of motion by analyzing the motion of a double pendulum. What took Sir Isaac Newton years to discover, Eureqa did in a few hours when running on a personal computer.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/...11013162937.htm
Capracus
1st November 2011 - 06:54 AM
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