The recent Singularity story at the NYT was also picked up by ChattahBox.com, which paraphrased the original article in their coverage. Here’s a quote:

Kurzweil expanded on the theories first advanced by I. J. Good and Vernor Vinge, promoting the notion of the rise of superintelligent machines that would improve their own designs beyond what humans ever envisioned.

That’s a meme we haven’t been seeing enough — that many of Kurzweil’s ideas are merely an expansion of older ideas, and you can theoretically throw away Kurzweil’s accelerating change arguments and retain the ideas of Good and Vinge.

Also, here’s an interesting image of Ray with his virtual alter-ego, Ramona:

I thought this image was cool because it shows Ray in more typical (non-business) clothes and with fluffed-up hair, like an everyday jogger. It would be cool to see Ray or Ramona give a talk in SecondLife.