Then all things are at risk.
Science is a horse.
Don't worship it. I reply, the ocean knows this. Your average search engine is only slightly more adept at interpreting your queries than a librarian who speaks a foreign tongue, but as Scientific American reports in The Semantic Web , understanding comes in time. The Singularity is Near , much anticipated by the editor. In a recent interview with CNET, Ray Kurzweil discusses the future of pattern-recognition technologies and why Bill Joy is wrong.