From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/automobiles/14JETCAR.html JAY LENO says he is old enough to remember when Detroit was a symbol of America’s prestige and manufacturing might, unlike its image today as a symbol of industrial decay and economic failure. “In 1963, Chrysler Corporation produced a batch of turbine cars and took them on test drives around the world,” said [...]
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity Technological singularity refers to the hypothesis that technological progress will become extremely fast, and so make the future unpredictable and qualitatively different from today. Although technological progress has been accelerating, it has been limited by the basic intelligence of the human brain, which has not changed significantly for millennia. However with the increasing [...]