Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil
American author, inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence and the human race.
How our predictions for the Year 2000 changed throughout the 20th Century - io9
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How our predictions for the Year 2000 changed throughout the 20th Century io9 Women don convertible dresses, temperature-controlled garments, and fabrics made from aluminum. The major fashion prediction one designer made was that skirts and dresses would disappear completely in favor of pants. The most accurate prediction? |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
Schwartz: Not So Science Fiction - The Dartmouth
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Schwartz: Not So Science Fiction The Dartmouth In a 2010 New York Times feature on predicting the future, Ray Kurzweil, of Kurzweil's law, said, “It's not just electronics and communications that follow [an] exponential course, [it's also] health, medicine and its related field of biology. |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
How can you tell if you're chatting with a bot? - San Francisco Chronicle
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How can you tell if you're chatting with a bot? San Francisco Chronicle Utopian, dystopian He doesn't think we're there yet, but once we are, we might quickly find ourselves facing sci-fi scenarios that come in utopian flavors (see Ray Kurzweil's predictions of bionic immortality) and dystopian ones (watch "The Terminator" ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
The End Is Nigh - Salt Lake City Weekly
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 Salt Lake City Weekly | The End Is Nigh Salt Lake City Weekly The sun explodes. 2. Earth shatters, like that planet in the asteroid belt. 3. We get the Big Rip, where everything dissolves as Shakespeare predicted, “leaving not a wrack behind.” 4. A gamma-ray burst hits us. 5. An unseen black hole swallows us. 6. |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future - The Guardian
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 The Guardian | Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future The Guardian By his own count 89 of 108 predictions he made in 1999 about where the world would be in 2009 were correct, and another 13 were "essentially correct". At the heart of all of Kurzweil's predictions is Moore's law. This is the rule that computing power ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
Estate Planning for Social Media Profiles - Complete Growth Investor (blog)
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Estate Planning for Social Media Profiles Complete Growth Investor (blog) According to scientist Ray Kurzweil, you may get that chance. He believes that in 20 years, immortality is a realistic possibility, thanks to breakthroughs in nanotechnology. In the meantime, however, it's likely that your body will expire before you ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
How will we build an artificial human brain? - io9
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How will we build an artificial human brain? io9 And as Ray Kurzweil has revealed, the brain contains masterful arrays of redundancy; it's not as complicated as we currently think. In order to gain this "low-level functional understanding" of the human brain, neuroscientists will need to employ a ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
Nanobots in our bodies: nanotechnology's unsettling possibility - Kansas State Collegian
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Nanobots in our bodies: nanotechnology's unsettling possibility Kansas State Collegian One of those eye-catching snippets is that futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil “believes humans and technology are blurring.” Maybe, I thought to myself, that could be true. But I thought about it only in terms of dependency and the number of people I ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
Why Star Trek's Vision of the Future is Out of Date - io9
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Why Star Trek's Vision of the Future is Out of Date io9 This is highly unlikely, given the timelines provided by some futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec who predict one later this century. This is made all the more weirder by the presence of advanced machine minds in the Star Trek universe who ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
Claremont Embraces the Singularity - Claremont Port Side
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Claremont Embraces the Singularity Claremont Port Side By Andy Willis When Ray Kurzweil speaks, smart people listen. One of the leading inventors of our time, Forbes described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology. This February, Kurzweil visited ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 03:11:12 PM
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