Posted on 04/22/2006 3:47:09 PM PDT by Dark Skies
Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist, has stumbled on a discovery of earth-shattering importance. It is the arrival of "singularity," and according to him it will happen in 2045.
"Gradually," he writes at the beginning of "The Singularity Is Near," "I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the first half of the 21st century … the impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality."
Singularity, Kurzweil says, is a development "representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability" and a "radical upgrading of our bodies' physical and mental systems."
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I loved that song until the 999th time they played it on MTV.
Shhh! [glancing furtively about] the oil companies are sitting on it! [clears throat].
Brilliant guy, but more optimistic than most. Possibly a hypochondriac... not a megalomaniac.
Suppose a select few were both fortunate enough to discover the secret for immortality and foolish enough to admit it. They'd be torn to pieces.
Only a secret society of long-lifers could hope to survive, especially if the secret was expensive to implement. You'd have life jealousy and wealth/class jealousy inflamed to the max, with predictable results.
I'm planning to be there. - The Q & A periods should be quite a show.
uhmmmm...I'm sorry. I'm not really an art bell fan...
Flying car?
We have enough idiots in two dimensions.....
You really want all the nitwits on the road to have a third?
Please post a review and ping me!
What has he invented? Hell, anyone can be a 'futurist'.
A new product co-invented by Dr Phil, Oprah...and John Wayne Bobbitt.
There's only one sure-fire way to stop sex with your robotic girlfriend...marry her.
I'd kind of like to merge with a computer. It's the only way I'm ever going to read everything that I want to read.
Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, and other areas of artificial intelligence . All of these technologies continue today as market leaders. Ray's Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence.Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
Yup. Then, a human-machine hybrid will invent the perpetual motion machine. He/it will use it to power the time machine that helps him finally and absolutely find Atlantis.
What a crouton. What the hell is the list of job requirements for the "Futurist" position? Being able to randomly make ridiculous guesses?
Don't any of these folks have real jobs?
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