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agrumer

Nine years to the Singularity

Mar 20, 2006 23:05

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solarbird March 21 2006, 04:14:26 UTC

When the experimental 2015 razor collapses in on itself in a world-denuding black hole of blades, they'll say they did it for t3h lulz.

mylescorcoran March 21 2006, 09:12:42 UTC

If I didn't sport a full beard I too would want to shave nano-closer. I for one welcome our future Aleph-0 bladed overlords.

nancylebov March 21 2006, 10:10:37 UTC

I don't think it takes godlike powers to produce nanotech hair-nibblers.

hattifattener March 29 2006, 09:01:12 UTC

Nanotech will only get us to 10 7 blades or so. If I read the chart right, a few milliseconds after that, the blade spacing will be shorter than the Planck length, and, uhhhh, !

Occam's Razor? anonymous March 21 2006, 14:38:37 UTC

Has Ray Kurzweil been shown this data? Or does he own Schick stock?

Re: Occam's Razor? anonymous March 21 2006, 21:13:35 UTC

Is "Schick Stock" similar to "Sticker Shock", another modern phenomenon?

Re: Occam's Razor? anonymous September 5 2006, 03:32:18 UTC

The real question is -- will it get your Schick out of shape?

Re: Occam's Razor? anonymous May 6 2007, 02:52:53 UTC

the first blade lifts, the second one cuts, you get your schick out of shape.

another factor anonymous March 21 2006, 15:08:49 UTC

A factor this study didn't include may allow us to start the curve much earlier and get some interesting results: not mentioned was the SIZE of the blade involved. Early shaving systems used hand-held, general purpose knives, which evolved over time into the straight razor, a smaller, special purpose blade. With the advent of the safety razor, which was invented in the 1890's but didn't achieve widespread acceptance until WW I, the blade shrank still further. There were several intermediate reductions in size (e.g. Schick injector) between the original safety razor and the advent of the first 2-bladed device. Projecting this curve leads us to nanoblades, each specifically targeted to a single hair, so that with one swipe, the entire beard can be removed in record time.

Re: another factor pavel_lishin March 21 2006, 22:28:50 UTC

It won't even be a razor, per se. It'll be a sort of mask, custom-fitted to your face. You'll just put your face in, and take it out, leaving any unwanted facial hair inside.

God help you if your face gets chubby, though.

Re: another factor anonymous March 14 2008, 21:55:25 UTC

That's not possible actually unless there is a person in the world with infinite strings of beard on their face and I know even King Kong doesn't have that much hair