[Nfbmo] {Disarmed} Fwd: Ray Kurzweil and howadvancesintechnology will ...

Sun Feb 13 07:07:19 UTC 2011

Dan, that's what I do if I want to keep an article. But I caution that often 
there are extra lines, hyperlinks, etc., that you don't want, so be sure to 
edit them out.

Dick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DanFlasar at aol.com>
To: <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] {Disarmed} Fwd: Ray Kurzweil and 
howadvancesintechnology will ...

Dick - That's the one - thanks for reminding us of the print  function!
I'd completely forgotten that option.
Dan

In a message dated 2/12/2011 11:49:19 P.M. Central Standard Time,
dickmorris at netzero.net writes:

Here's a  copy of the Time article in a Word document. One thing about the
site: if  you click Print Article, a new window opens and you can copy and
paste  that into a Word document.

This is the article Dan's link led to. If  it's the wrong one, let me know
and I'll try to find the correct  one.

Dick Morris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene  Coulter" <escoulter at centurytel.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing  List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 8:54  PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] {Disarmed} Fwd: Ray Kurzweil and how
advancesintechnology will ...

Time is available on Newsline.  Don’t know issues are up there at present.

From:  DanFlasar at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 8:38 PM
To:  nfbmo at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] {Disarmed} Fwd: Ray Kurzweil and how  advances
intechnology will ...

Cari,
Unfortunately,  TIME does not allow you to download their  articles -
they want you to  go to the website and be assaulted by all the
advertisers,
which,  after all, pay for the website in the first place.   Some  on-line
sources allow you to read the whole article on one page but I   didn't find
any
way to do this on this webpage.
Dan

In a  message dated 2/12/2011 8:22:28 P.M. Central Standard  Time,
carisuekness at gmail.com writes:

Hi Dan,
I  would be  interested in reading this article but I can't find it
amoung all  the  other links. Can you send it in a file or   something?
Thanks.
Peace,
Cari

On 2/12/11,   DanFlasar at aol.com <DanFlasar at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi   all,
>     I am passing this on only because it is  an  extended  article about
> someone who has had  and  continues  to have - a very close  relationship
with
>  the
> NFB - Ray  Kurzweil.  In association with the NFB  at  various times,
>  Kurzweil has created such important  technological prostheses  as  the
> scanner, the
> first  text-to-speech engines and combining  the  aforementioned, the
KNFB
> Reader, now packaged into a  cellphone.    He's  worked in other domains
as
>  well,
> such as  music synthesizers - his curiosity and  creativity  seems to  be
> boundless.
>     Some of us have  heard  about his ideas on "The  Singularity" - which
has
> been   portrayed in lurid terms in the press and the  media as  evidence
that
> Dr. Kurzweil is essentially 'losing  it'.
>     This article, from Time magazine, takes a  more  in-depth look  at
> Kurzweil's career and how it has led  him to his seemingly   bizarre
> predictions
> such as  installing our consciousness into  immortal robot  bodies.   What
he
> is
> really about is  asking what happens when  technology can  correct or
> compensate  for deficits in the  human body - or just as importantly,
using
>  technology to  enhance our bodies beyond what they are capable of in  the
> first  place.
>
>      I had a long  discussion with  a  friend about the NFB's
blind-driveable
>  car.   My  friend didn't understand that this was not a  robotic  car
that
> chauffeured the blind passenger - it was a car  that  included  sensor
> technology that mapped the visual world   into a form that a blind driver
can
> use to
> make the   decisions necessary to successfully navigate and control -   to
>  drive - the vehicle.  The army, it is true, has been  trying to develop
a
> robot
> car that drives itself through  all kinds of terrain,  including,
> eventually, populated areas,  highways and Walmart parking  lots.   The
NFB
>  car's
> driver is essential -  the driver is in control, but plenty  of  safety
> devices  are
> also at work to make the job  a bit easier. These same  devices  could
also
> make it easier  for the sighted to drive as  well.
>     It is here  that Kurzweil is *really* taking  the  blind into a more
>  equitable realm - his text-to-speech  technology made it  easier for  us
to
> 'drive' through the universe  of information via  print.   The KNFB reader
> allows  us
> to more  easily 'drive' through the wider world by  making  verbal
>  information in the environment available.   Kurzweil  had   no part in
the
> blind-driveable car but it is in line with  what  he has done all  along.
I
> don't believe
> in the   inevetability of Kurzweil's  predictions but  it is well  worth
the
> time to understand what it is that makes Raymond  Kurzweil   'tick' - and
what
> in
> part drove him to  develop  accessible  technologies.  He has been at work
>  for a long  time to redefine what  independence means.
>   The article is in 5 parts, well worth the    effort.
>
>
>  (http://www.time.com/)    (http://www.time.com/)
>
>
>
> 2045: The Year  Man  Becomes   Immortal
>
_http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?artId=204813
>   8?contType=article?chn=sciHealth_
>
(http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?artId=204813
8?contType=article?chn=sciHealth)
>
>   Dan
>
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