The Noble Lie

Douglas Hofstadter, author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", the first book to truly rock my world and massively expand the boundaries of my mind, also spoke at Singularity Summit with Ray Kurzweil. He offers a skeptical response to Kurzweil, and makes many interesting points in the process.

I think the potential is very real, and one thing that isn't mentioned in these talks is the fact that the highest of high technology, the stuff that NSA and so on uses, is obviously kept secret from the public.