• By ndouglas
    Mar 1, 2006 3:06 PM 315
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    Five reasons no one will replace Google
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    Three Valley moguls dabble in humanity's future

    singularity-shake.jpgFormer Paypal CEO Peter Thiel recently joined the board of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a transhumanist org seeking to "help ensure a safe Singularity" by ushering in an age of self-aware computers. But he's not the only Valley exec investing in weird dreams of a super-intelligent race. Here are the top three:

    The mogul The futurism venue The dream
    Peter Thiel, former Paypal CEO Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Robot-boy Haley Joel Osment brings peace and welfare to mankind
    Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Aliens contacted, befriended, acquired in hostile stock takeover
    Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems co-founder "Why the future doesn't need us" (Wired article) If we're lucky, humanity will survive


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