Tars
05-03-2007, 06:58 AM
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The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth
Ray Kurzweil is a legendary inventor with a history of mind-blowing ideas. Now he's onto something even bigger. If he's right, the future will be a lot weirder and brighter than you think:
Some predictions:
By 2027, he predicts, computers will surpass humans in intelligence; by 2045 or so, we will reach the Singularity, a moment when technology is advancing so rapidly that "strictly biological" humans will be unable to comprehend it.
In a couple of decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots circulating through our bloodstream
we'll be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer
Full Fortune article posted on CNN.com:
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/index.htm?postversion=2007050209
The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth
Ray Kurzweil is a legendary inventor with a history of mind-blowing ideas. Now he's onto something even bigger. If he's right, the future will be a lot weirder and brighter than you think:
Some predictions:
By 2027, he predicts, computers will surpass humans in intelligence; by 2045 or so, we will reach the Singularity, a moment when technology is advancing so rapidly that "strictly biological" humans will be unable to comprehend it.
In a couple of decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots circulating through our bloodstream
we'll be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer
Full Fortune article posted on CNN.com:
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008848/index.htm?postversion=2007050209