Doing Real World Projects Is, I Think,

What We Spend Our Time On Is Probably The Most Important Decision We Make.

Play Is Just Another Version Of Work

Supercomputers Will Achieve One Human Brain Capacity By 2010, And Personal Computers Will Do So By About 2020.

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.

Sometimes People Talk About Conflict Between Humans And Machines, And You Can See That In A Lot Of Science Fiction. But The Machines Were Creating Are Not Some Invasion From Mars. We Create These Tools To Expand Our Own Reach.