Although I'm Not Prepared To Move Up

Death Is A Great Tragedy…a Profound Loss…i Don’t Accept It…i Think People Are Kidding Themselves When They Say They Are Comfortable With Death.

As You Go Out To The 2040s, Now The Bulk Of Our Thinking Is Out In The Cloud. The Biological Portion Of Our Brain Didn't Go Away But The Nonbiological Portion Will Be Much More Powerful. And It Will Be Uploaded Automatically The Way We Back Up Everything Now That's Digital.

I'm An Inventor. I Became Interested In Long-term Trends Because An Invention Has To Make Sense In The World In Which It Is Finished, Not The World In Which It Is Started.

The Profound Aspect Of Technology Is That Once Secrets Are Revealed, The Magic Doesn't Disappear.

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.