The Purposeful Destruction Of Information Is The

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.

Intelligence Is: (a) The Most Complex Phenomenon In The Universe; Or (b) A Profoundly Simple Process. The Answer, Of Course, Is (c) Both Of The Above. It's Another One Of Those Great Dualities That Make Life Interesting.

So What Used To Fit In A Building Now Fits In Your Pocket, What Fits In Your Pocket Now Will Fit Inside A Blood Cell In 25 Years.

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.

Launching A Breakthrough Idea Is Like Shooting Skeet. People's Needs Change, So You Must Aim Well Ahead Of The Target To Hit It.