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The 7 Signs of the Singularity

Subject: Re: Yes! T-Shirt at Extro-5 Conference!
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:54:31 -0500
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" 
To: extropians@extropy.org

The Seven Signs of the Singularity:

1.  You refinance your house and it's a thirty-second mortgage.

2.  GM turnips form a biotech company and sequence their own genome.

3.  The Nasdaq moves to scientific notation.

4.  Your toaster has its own webcam site.

5.  "Femtotrading" is frowned upon by day traders.

6.  The Luddites are building a reclusive, slower-paced Dyson Sphere.

7.  People are debating whether the Singularity will arrive in 2015 or
2030 nanoseconds.

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Attributions:

Eliezer Yudkowsky:  1, 3, 6.
Mike Lorrey: 4
Adrian Tymes: 7
Dale Johnstone: 2, 5

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