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I've seen business classes open up here on this site before, but they seemed to expect those taking them would already know what they were doing. I didn't, so I didn't end up doing to well, or following up for very long. This stuff can also be really confusing, so I feel like I need someone to really be gentle and help guide me through the material, like a tutor.
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A few years ago I had been pretty big on reading up on the Singularity, the magical point in history where technology becomes something so powerful, everything changes. Recently, I had been reading in some magazines about Twitter and in a newspaper about Facebook. With Twitters amazing ability to stream the current thoughts of millions of users together at once, it seems only a step or two before it becomes an interface with a real, god-level hive-mind. Facebook, well that seems like it has a further way to go, but I was reading about how people are still getting reminders on their facebooks of the coming birthdays of friends who have passed away, and it got me thinking that it would be another four or five steps before Facebook, reached this goal, but it looked like it was the beginnings of a digital afterlife. So, this got me back around to thinking about the Singularity, with its god-level computer intelligences, and powerful nanotechnology and free microscopic-level fusion and whatnot. What can you offer about that?
I think I'd like this, especially if the course could be and would be handled as a workshop, with a coordinator kind of in the middle, assigning things and pulling everyone together. I find that input and the need to perform can be very stimulating for me in my writing.