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

DanFlasar at aol.com DanFlasar at aol.com
Sun Feb 13 17:39:33 UTC 2011 

Dick - I'll keep that in mind!
Dan
 
 
In a message dated 2/13/2011 1:13:04 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
dickmorris at netzero.net writes:

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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