I don't agree with Kurzweil on much, but the more I read the back and forth, the more it seemed to me that Myers was totally out of his depth. He completely mi

I don't agree with Kurzweil on much, but the more I read the back and forth, the more it seemed to me that Myers was totally out of his depth. He completely misquoted what Kurzweil said, and then when that came to light he followed it up with fairly thorough misinterpretations of what Kurzweil was saying. I don't think he was doing that intentionally: he just didn't understand what he was saying. On my reading, Kurzweil wasn't really delving into genomics (this was entirely a red herring): he was staying on firm ground in information theory, cognitive science, and computer science, and in these areas it was Myers who showed a fair lack of acknowledgment for his own ignorance in the field.