Podcast 596 – “Terence McKenna on Art Bell” Part 1
Psychedelic Salon
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Is It Really Possible That Nanotechnology Will Be the Next Big Thing?
"I don't, i don't think any one can triangulate all these factors without having the feeling that we're approaching some kind of singularity," he says. "The quickening that you've written about and the novelty theory that i've written about are both metaphors for this sense of impending cross fertilization and explosion of all knowledge." The author's main strength doesn't lie so much in portraying the psychology of these people as in imagining and describing in a way that convinces you it could be the technologies that will make this stuff happen.
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