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Holding pattern ...

Been on the road; on the way home: normal service will be resumed in the next day or two.

Posted by Charlie Stross on November 17, 2008 8:59 AM |

Comments

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Have a stress-free return.

Posted by: James Reynolds | November 17, 2008 4:41 PM

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Second James's comment. Also, you may be interested in Kevin Kelly's post on "thinkism", which is a response to the idea of the singularity: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/09/thinkism.php .

Posted by: Ada | November 17, 2008 5:28 PM

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Ada: Kevin Kelly is spot on, insofar as he's pointing out that Ray Kurzweill's trousers are made of a fabric so sheer and so fine that it, er, appears to be transparent to the point of invisibility.

(Kurzweill is guilty, in my view, of millenarian zeal -- a phenomenon that is extremely, tiresomely, familiar to anyone who's even glanced at the history of early mediaeval Europe, circa 950-1050 AD.)

Posted by: Charlie Stross | November 17, 2008 7:37 PM

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A very ineresting article, Ada, although I don't think we're ever in too much danger of "thinkism". Typically i's the "doism" I'm more worried about. :)

Posted by: Arthur | November 18, 2008 1:53 PM

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What books do you recommend on the history of early medieval Europe?

Posted by: EBCDIC | November 19, 2008 4:10 AM

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I thought for a moment that the title here might be a sequel to Halting State. :P

Posted by: Paul Harrison | November 21, 2008 6:34 AM