The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When you think of the future, what do you imagine? Flying cars? Uh, swimming planes? Boats that go on land? Well Ray Kurzweil is here to tell you how wrong you are. The Singularity is Near is full of stunning predictions about the future, made with absolute confidence even when they turn out to not be that accurate. (Kinda like when people predict “for better or for worse, in sickness and in health.") It was written in 2004, so some of the book has to be read with a grain of the-iPod-was-bare...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Today's book predicts a wild future where humans are immortal and our brains are made up of hyper-intelligent machines so we can spend that brain power on, I don't know, canceling people. Today's book is The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, who, at 74 years old, had better hope it's pretty near.
0:20.6	I'm Kellanerska, and I'm a comic, a father, and a futurist.
0:28.1	It's basically just a means that I like to read about how big the next flat screen TV is
0:32.8	going to be at Costco.
0:35.6	And I'm David Vance.
0:36.9	I think singularity is the word techies use when they're too embarrassed to admit they believe
0:41.1	in heaven.
0:43.5	The singularity is near argues that soon technology can solve basically all our problems.
0:48.6	Call me when there's a vaccine for polio.
0:52.7	And this is the book pile.
0:56.1	Damagier says, I don't even need to read the review.
1:00.6	Just the subject line for it says, very good.
1:04.4	I listened to all of them in under six days.
1:08.1	Wow.
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:09.5	What does that come to?
1:10.5	That comes to seven hours of our podcast per day. days. Wow. Yeah. What does that come to?
1:18.4	That comes to seven hours of our podcast per day, which is even more of it than I listen to.
1:29.0	I mean, to go through essentially 90 episodes in the time that it took to create the world that is.
1:37.8	All right, big announcement, June 4th, Provo, Utah at the Hive Collaborative Theater.
1:41.4	Me and Dave, we'll have our next live podcast. We'll be roasting a clips from the Twilight series, ever heard of it, and I'll be opening
1:47.0	the show with 20 minutes of brand new stand-up. Go to the hivecollaborative.com for tickets,
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