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because it's more interesting to predict rapid advances than slow ones I suspect it's more that futurists think in terms of our engineering efforts being poure
by daxorid 8y ago
because it's more interesting to predict rapid advances than slow ones
I suspect it's more that futurists think in terms of our engineering efforts being poured primarily into things that advance humanity, rather than the adtech, porn, entertainment, and media innovations that our Idiocracy actually seeks to reward.
Kurzweil could have been more accurate, had humanity been more prone to species improvement than, say, ever more addictive social media apps and ever more entertaining and higher resolution Netflix marathons.
- aetherson 8y agoTo be clear, I wasn't remarking on why futurists think the way they do, I was commenting on what makes someone a "well-known" futurist. The Age of Spiritual Machines is a catchier title and more interesting book than The Age of Cell Phones That Are Mostly Screen and You Can Call A Taxi With Them. There are plenty of people out there peddling much more luke-warm futures than Kurzweil; they just don't become well-known because safe, conservative predictions aren't that interesting.