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    People: Ray Kurzweil


    Ray Kurzweil On Exponential Technologies
    posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008

    At the recent World Science Festival in New York City, Ray Kurzweil outlined why he is certain that the future isn’t as dreary as it’s been painted, and why we are closer to the incredible than we think: Exponential upward curves can be deceptively gradual in the beginning. But when things start happening, they happen fast. Here are a selection of his predicted trajectories for these “miracles” based on his educated assessment of where science and technology is at in the present.
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    IEEE Spectrum's Special Report: The Singularity
    posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008

    Across cultures, classes, and aeons, people have yearned to transcend death. Bear that history in mind as you consider the creed of the singularitarians. Many of them fervently believe that in the next several decades we’ll have computers into which you’ll be able to upload your consciousness -- the mysterious thing that makes you you. Then, with your consciousness able to go from mechanical body to mechanical body, or virtual paradise to virtual paradise, you’ll never need to face death, illness, bad food, or poor cellphone reception.
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    Kurzweil: Expect Exponential Progress
    posted on Monday, May 05, 2008

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology was so advanced in 1965 that it actually had a computer. Housed in its own building, it cost $11 million (in today's dollars) and was shared by all students and faculty. Four decades later, the computer in your cellphone is a million times smaller, a million times less expensive, and a thousand times more powerful. That's a billionfold increase in the amount of computation you can buy per dollar.

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    The 14 Grand Engineering Challenges Of The 21st Century
    posted on Monday, February 18, 2008

    The panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists included Google co-founder Larry Page and genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter. They spent more than a year pondering how best to improve life on Earth and came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges, a list the National Academy of Engineering <http://vivo.aaas.org/> deemed so momentous it should be capitalized.
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    Machines 'To Match Man By 2029'
    posted on Monday, February 18, 2008

    Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
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    Movie: 'The Singularity Is Near'
    posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007

    The Singularity is Near, A True Story about the Future, based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times best selling book, will be a full-length motion picture slated for theatrical release in Spring 2008.
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    Could We Live Forever?
    posted on Friday, November 16, 2007

    Consider how life expectancy has increased over the last two centuries. An average man born in 1800 had a life expectancy of 35 years. In 1900, he would have made it all the way to 47. By 1950, average life expectancy was up to 68 years, and now it’s up to 78. The trend is definitely favorable. But how far can we take it?
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    Real Superhumans & The Quest For The Future Fantastic
    posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007

    In this special two-hour presentation, "The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic," witness the amazing stories of real people with extraordinary super powers. But just who are these "super humans?" In Switzerland, meet a woman who combines senses so that she can "taste" music; in Turkey, a painter compared with Renaissance master Brunelleschi, who has been blind since birth; in Germany, a man discovered one day that he can perform complex calculations in his mind; and in the Netherlands, a man who possesses the inexplicable power to withstand extreme cold -- but how? These super powers seemingly transcend what it means to be human, how we use our natural senses and our physical limitations.
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    The Plan For Eternal Life (Includes Video-Taped Interviews)
    posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007

    This is the opening session of the ninth annual meeting of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) in Chicago. Sandberg and his fellow transhumanists plan to bypass death by using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), genetic engineering and nanotechnology to radically accelerate human evolution, eventually merging people with machines to make us immortal. This may not be possible yet, the transhumanists reason, but as long as they live long enough -- a few decades perhaps -- the technology will surely catch up.
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    The Smartest (Or The Nuttiest) Futurist On Earth
    posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007

    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.
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