For the decade of the 1980's (40 years ago) Japan made the top emphasis of their industrial policy AI. In the 1700's people believed we could make devices that

For the decade of the 1980's (40 years ago) Japan made the top emphasis of their industrial policy AI. In the 1700's people believed we could make devices that imitated the behavior of animals as soon as we could make the clock work small enough. Meanwhile the whole world could be massacred by nuclear weapons on any given day in a few hours. And the author feels we are woefully unprepared for the singularity. Maybe.