Vocab lesson of the day: Apparently the Maes-Garrreau point is the term given to a wondrous future, predicted to appear just before the visionary’s expected date of death.
The term, coined by Kevin Kelly, is named for MIT’s Pattie Maes and jounalist Joel Garreau, who both noticed the phenomenon. Maes apparently found that several of her colleagues were optimistic that one day we’ll all be able to upload our minds into computers, ensuring a kind of immortality. Interestingly, Maes discovered that when she asked her colleagues when this would all happen, they all tended to give a date that just happened to be right before they could be expected to die of old age. Journalist Joel Garreau has noticed this type of thing happening with other predictions of cool, wonderful, transformative advances that will make all of our lives wonderful… the person making the prediction tends to think that the advance will happen right before they die.

Thanks to
SpugeonBlog and Technium.

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