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Ray Kurzweil predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020

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Re: Ray Kurzweil predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020

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We know what to do with the waste: burn it up in nuclear reactors. Much of what's called "waste" is really just partially-processed fuel, and the only two reasons it isn't viewed that way are, first, proliferation fear and, second, it was convenient for all the major groups involved to spread FUD about the terrible dangers of nuclear waste.

Agreed, France has an excellent nuclear power program.

Tell that to the Somalis.

Re: Ray Kurzweil predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020

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I don't know what the world will look like in 2020, but I know what Kurzweil will be up to: still trying to turn a buck hustling bizarre 'life-extension' supplements. That is, if the 100+ pills he takes daily or the weekly transfusions don't kill him first.

To understand Kurzweil you have to understand that he is very, very, very afraid of dying. With that knowledge, everything he says and does becomes a lot more understandable.

Re: Ray Kurzweil predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020

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Tell that to the Somalis.

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The Somali pirates, who for some reason love to pillage French vessels, evolved out of fishermen, in the vacuum left by the absent government and coast guard, patrolling the shores where they fished for ships from Western (mainly European) countries dumping toxic and nuclear waste into the waters and killing the fish.

So any time I hear about how the French have their act together nuclear-wise, I have to wonder where that waste goes, and if some of it ends up off the coast of Somalia.

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