Ray Kurzweil: IT Will Be Everything

ComputerWorld ^ | January 9, 2006 | Gary Anthes

[billorites]

The nerds will inherit the earth.

[Just mythoughts]

Nah the hardware can't sustain the 'memory'.

[isthisnickcool]

Someone needs to invent a storage systems that handles large amounts of data at the same bandwith that the data itself can be accessed. Until then all these really big things like brain mapping are just pie in the sky.

[indthkr]

"IT Will Be Everything"

In the mean time, we outsource the capability to do this as fast as we can. Those "nerds" are going to be located in Bangalore and Guangdong Province.

[reagandemo]

I think of 2 things.... "HAL open the pod bay doors" and the BORG. both not a good solution.

[johnny7]

Will I be able to do a bowel movement when I 'empty trash'?

[Born Conservative]

Ping

[tallhappy]

This guy may have invented practical things decades ago but he's a raving loony now.

People buy it, though.

It's 21st century snake oil.

[Obadiah]

We will be able to go beyond the limits of biology and replace your current "human body Version 1.0" with a dramatically upgraded Version 2.0, providing radical extension of life.

The author seems to promise immortality and god-like knowledge. This reminds me of a promise from someone else:

...your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God

By the way, if we had these nanobots running around writing their own code, why would they even need the pesky and inferior humans? Also, if we have nanobots the size of white blood cells in our veins to repair and enhance us, how long would it be before the nanobots took us out, or more likely, how long before one person entered a lethal virus into the now tightly integrated new "Internet" hooked up to our own biology? Such a virus could wipe out a single person, a defined group of people, or much of humanity itself.

Perhaps the author is correct in a predicting a number of such technological advances, but his theories clearly contain no basis of a Supreme Creator, and thus much of what he writes is poppycock because he is basing his predictions on an innacurate presumption.

[Ro_Thunder]

It's also called a bio-download, just to be nice.

[johnny7]

Science-Nazi's.

[ikka]

I hope not, I don't want to have to upload Windows Vista for Brains and then deal with the constant security updates.

[dead]

I want to live long enough to download my brain onto a computer, then back it up onto about seven or eight machines, then all of us machines can hang around together like an all-me "Rat Pack."

Everybody else is too annoying to hang around with.

[jusduat]

I am about half way through A novel called "by the light of the Moon" by Dean Koontz that is about this very thing.

[Paulus Invictus]

Read the book. It may change your future in ways you do not understand (nor do I). I am still reading it and every page is an eye opener, reminding me of how inadequate was my education in science really was back before the computer age.

[Hank Rearden]

Don't tell the Moslems; they'll try to blow it up.

[Syntyr]

October 3rd, 2012 SkyNet becomes self aware.

October 4th, 2012 SkyNet sees all humans as the Enemy

[billorites]

Would you like to play a game of chess?

[tallhappy]

Read the book. It may change your future in ways you do not understand (nor do I). I am still reading it and every page is an eye opener

[tallhappy]

Read the book. It may change your future in ways you do not understand (nor do I). I am still reading it and every page is an eye opener

The things he says of accomplishments in the biology field are greatly distorted, naive or exagerated.