Space Settlement

--- In spacesettlers, "Omar E. Vega" wrote:

> Singularity in 40 years?
>
> Come on! A.I. is just the archetype of the Golem, Pinoccio,
> Frankenstein or a S.F. Robot: Is a dream!

Space travel itself was a dream for thousands of years. In
particular, traveling to the Moon was the height of wild fantasy. Wan
Hu, Baron Munchausen, the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel _The Moon Maid_.
But it happened.

A.I. may well take a long, long time. I suppose it could even be an
impossibility (though that smacks of vitalism). But if it is, it has
to be for some reason better than that it hasn't been done already.

Still, I won't fall over in shock if, forty years from now, the
experts predict A.I. "in the next ten years."