From: security@buttecommunity.com
Subject: Your Card has been deactivated.
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:37:02 +0200

Butte Community Bank has been notified by numerous members that they have received e-mail requesting account information. We will never ask you to verify your account information via e-mail.
Due to increasing number of fraudulent e-mails claiming to be from BCB, all Visa Cards, including yours (4850-9900-XXXX-XXXX) have been deactivated.
We understand that having limited access can be an inconvenience, but protecting your account is our primary concern. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
To activate your card, please follow the link bellow:
https://www.buttecommunity.com/visa/activate.asp <== phished (http://users.nelsoncable.com/anita/personal.html) We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. Sincerely, Butte Community Bank Security Department

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 (Clarke’s third law)

One day technology will seem more magical than the myth of magic. In fact, the very idea of magical power will seem weak, unimaginative and one dimensional compared to what is ahead. It will be the faded equivalent of a 100,000 year old print of a hand on a wall. Things that we cannot yet imagine are just beyond the horizon.

From our current early 21st century understanding looking at future progress, physical reality itself will be the tool of choice commanded at the whim of awareness. Religion and myth will be cherished ornaments and magic will be replaced with a series of unfathomable miracles seemingly from nowhere. I could call this miracle science, math, or technology but our current ideas of what those things are will not apply; for it is something closer to what magic is supposed to be.

Only futurists, inventors and brilliant mathmeticians have been able to catch a glimpse of the coming revolution. Some have been driven mad by its implications (ted kazinski), some driven to fear the future and others call it the Singularity (Ray Kurzweil).

Technological Singularity – The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.