[lbryce]

With circumstances unprecedented in world history, our legs dangling over the edge hanging on the precipice, Islamofascism growing stronger, bolder by the day, the debt crisis solvable only by borrowing more money, I think Ray Kurzweil manages to conjure up a future on a world other than what we inhabit.

Some of what Ray Kurzweil's says is in the fabulous future

*Our brains will extend to the cloud, which will allow us to learn new things at any age.

*We'll be in augmented reality at all times.(Most people are on medication in form or another)

*By 2029, machines will be able to match the intelligence of humans, and they'll be able to make us laugh and cry.

*Around the 2030s, tiny "nanobots" able to repair and preserve our organs will keep us healthier and smarter.

*Society will reach a state of "technological singularity" in 2045 where technology enables superhuman machine intelligences to emerge and people and machines become deeply integrated.

Society? What society? The Society of Global Muslim Terror-Zombies?

[freedumb2003]

*Our brains will extend to the cloud, which will allow us to learn new things at any age.

All of them false.

*By 2029, machines will be able to match the intelligence of humans, and they'll be able to make us laugh and cry.

Or be their slaves.

*Around the 2030s, tiny "nanobots" able to repair and preserve our organs will keep us healthier and smarter.

Requiring Social Security to use up 173% of the USA GDP.

*Society will reach a state of "technological singularity" in 2045 where technology enables superhuman machine intelligences to emerge and people and machines become deeply integrated.

33 years tool late. Hasn't he seen gatherings of people younger than 40? We are there now.

[MNDude]

Predictions for 2012 from 1987:
http://www.writersofthefuture.com/time-capsule-predictions
I predict 20 years from now, futurists will still be making terrible predictions.

[Personal Responsibility]

Not a word about when I can expect a flying car.

[Baynative]

By the end of Obama's next four years it is likely that there will be two courses of action people will be taking.

1. Figure out how to take what you need in order to survive.
2. Figure out how to protect what you have.

[Psalm 144]

I suppose that beats cooking grass and neighbor soup in a hubcap heated with a fire from broken antique furniture.

Actually in twenty years I think we will be recovering to approximately the point we are right now, or we’ll all look like North Korea depending on who wins the internecine wars in the Northern Hemisphere.

[Wuli]

To believe AND adore Kurzwell is to believe we all just can’t wait to become part of the Borg collective.

[Average Al]

When will they make humans smart enough to work and vote? ;-)

[Cedar]

“By 2029, machines will be able to match the intelligence of humans, and they’ll be able to make us laugh and cry.”

Computers with a virus already make people cry...and then laugh for joy when it’s fixed.

[DustyMoment]

Here’s what our future REALLY looks like:

In 1957, Ayn Rand published “Atlas Shrugged”. I have always considered “Atlas Shrugged” to be a blueprint for the future of America. We have almost reached that future.

In the coming years, as business sheds fulltime employees and makes them all part-timers to avoid the ZeroCare regulations, I predict that Dems in Congress will come up with an equivalent of the “Dog-Eat-Dog” law to force business to comply with the intent of ZeroCare and the Congress.

So, we should be seeing John Galt on the horizon soon. After that, it’s anybody’s game.

[DemforBush]

Most of the guy’s predictions seem very pie in the sky, but these three I think are actually quite likely to come to pass:

“* Around the 2030s, tiny “nanobots” able to repair and preserve our organs will keep us healthier and smarter.”

A bit far-fetched, but probably not incorrect. We’re already seeing work with molecule-sized ‘switches’ in electronics, and a microscopic robot that could be designed to perform certain medical tasks doesn’t seem out of bounds. I don’t know about ‘smarter’ though.

“*3D printing will be even more common than it is today, with public 3D printing stations for people to print out clothes, toys, and anything else.”

I think this is very possible. It might not be a “public” place like a kinko’s so much as a proprietary device owned by a chain, but I can see this one coming to pass.

“* Within 25 years, computers will be the size of a blood cell and we’ll be able to connect it to the brain without the need for surgery.”

Again, I think this is possible in the next couple decades. What that mini-computer will be able to do is the real question.

[RegulatorCountry]

Funny how we get rosy futurism (from a leftist POV) under a leftist regime, and scary dystopias (from a leftist POV) under a putatively conservative one.

Am I wrong in sensing a pattern here, lol? The left sees itself as The Federation from Star Trek and sees the right as The Borg, uniformly. But, the reality of forced uniformity and forced assimilation behind the policies they espouse, well ...

They should really just lay off the futurism. It’s not flattering to them, no matter which way it eventually turns out. They can be wrong, look stupid but things are OK, or they can be right, look prescient and the world is just that much more of a living hell.

When they start envisioning hellish dystopias as a result of their own folly, I might consider giving some credence, but I’m not holding my breath.

[Gay State Conservative]

Self driving cars...laughing machines...and every *single* major US city will look like Detroit.

[SkyPilot]

Shopping in 2032

Hospital in 2032

Law Enforcement 2032

Bloggers 2032

[Lx]

I thought they offed Kurzweil in the first X-Files movie?