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...Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” trash can-dwelling Nell says in the American Repertory Theatre’s current production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.” Indeed, the bleak world and hopeless characters become darkly, sadly funny and wholly human in the hands of a capable team of actors and designers headed by director Marcus Stern. The phenomenal acting, skillful directing, and stunning creative vision of the play—which runs through March 15 at the Loeb Drama Center—produce a near-perfect experience of Beckett?...
...advancing fast and the delight of knowing for sure that the world is getting better, quicker. As the savings-investment cycles reach their fever pitch in South and East Asia, these societies will undoubtedly spend their trillions of reserves on infrastructure, unlocking once and for all the mass of human capital...
...Proponents of the so-called technological singularity—including some of the most prominent futurologists—foresee a non-biological intelligence explosion, a future in which miraculous technology transforms human lives in manifold ways. This fascinating idea, which deserves careful attention from all well-educated citizens, turns on machines becoming smarter than humans. In such a scenario, the artificial intelligences would recursively self-teach, gaining abilities the designers could not imagine. Irving John Good described this possibility in 1965: “Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual...
...More probable and more spectacular will be what I have termed the human singularity. In our lifetimes, Asia will make untold investments in roads, rail, ports, sanitation, power, water, and schools. In a case of leapfrogging, it will build only the most modern incarnations of infrastructure: adopting nuclear power fast, building advanced sewer systems in the first place, and incorporating technology in its schools from day one. In a not-so-distant generational quantum leap, literally billions of well-fed, well-read, well-entertained, and well-capitalized young men and women will suddenly enter the matrix of humanity with heightened...
...largest populations will be abruptly unlocked. They will produce legions of scientists, authors, entrepreneurs, and doctors. There will be billions of dignified families, living in dignified homes with running water, armed with the self-esteem and desire that accompanies good health and literacy, mobility, and legal security. The human singularity will bring bangs of creative flowering in heretofore unknown volumes and quality, and the Asian air will be signed with newfound confidence and pride. I dare any technological singularity to match this future in scale of ambition...