Futurist Ray Kurzweil has founded an institution dedicated to the exponential tendencies of growing human knowledge which is known as Singularity University - at present it offers a few short courses and some grad student programs, aiming to prepare business people to remain functional five minutes longer than the rest of us - just long enough to be well ahead when its all over.
Somehow, whenever I hear that name it makes me think of Bovine University from Troy McClure's short film on why its OK to eat meat. The abbatoir is Bovine University. I guess in my mind, the Singularity shows up we walking meatbags and confronts us with what else we might be.
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