To 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 Ma

To 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.