I’d point out that much of the above is not (at least not entirely) related to his futurism—Kurweil has done a lot of other things.
That was the point—he already had a lot of credibility from his earlier achievements, which might cause people to also take his futurist claims more seriously than if the same books had been written by random nobodies.
Wow—reading comprehension fail, retracted.
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I’d point out that much of the above is not (at least not entirely) related to his futurism—Kurweil has done a lot of other things.
That was the point—he already had a lot of credibility from his earlier achievements, which might cause people to also take his futurist claims more seriously than if the same books had been written by random nobodies.
Wow—reading comprehension fail, retracted.