Moloth - The M-Forums

I was reading an article/interview on Jeb Bush and, towards the end of the piece, this little gem appeared:

What do you read every day?
I read The New York Times. I read The Wall Street Journal. I read the Sayfie Review, which is about Florida politics. I'm reading a wild book. It's The Singularity Is Near. [The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil] The book is about how technology is going to overtake the human mind. There's basically like an L-shaped advancement that's going to take place. There's a convergence of our own intellectual capacities and technology. There's going to be a merger, and we're going to, this guy believes, live in an era of unbelievable intelligence and advancement. It's wild.

http://www.esquire.com/features/jeb-bus … v7F5&D


Transhumanism and the technological singularity is pretty heady stuff. Ray Kurzweil is a fascinating figure in the scientific community in an of himself. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil )

how strange that Jeb Bush would even attempt or be interested in such reading...