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Ken Wilber on the Singularity

Mon, Dec 17, 2007

Integral Thinking

Good video on Ken Wilber talking about the notion of a technological singularity: Interpreting the Singularity.

Although Ken doesn’t seem to have a very good grasp of Kurzweil’s work or of technology in general (hey, it isn’t his strong suite … I know, I worked with him on technology issues for a couple of years), he does make some very good points about the singularity:

  1. What’s valuable in a world of information is the editing of that information. The NY Times Editor said, “You pay us for what we don’t print.”
  2. Levels of interpretations are happening with information, so even if we have instantaneous access to all the world’s information (which by the way, has already happened) there are still issues of interpretation and that happens at multiple levels.
  3. One downside of the information age is that the level of discourse is at a really low intellectual level. People with a lot of extra time are the most dominant voices. Shit, am I one of those folks?

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