Ray Kurzweil quotes - page 3

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about. (Ray Kurzweil)
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. View quote
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The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. View quote
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I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. View quote
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I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago. View quote
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If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle. View quote
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Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. View quote
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Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. View quote
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Play is just another version of work. View quote
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I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. View quote
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By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. (Ray Kurzweil)
The Law of Accelerating Returns: As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up (that is, the time interval between salient events grows shorter as time passes). The Law... applies specifically to evolutionary processes. View quote
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The speed and density of computation have been doubling every three years (at the beginning of the twentieth century) to one year (at the end of the twentieth century), regardless of the type of hardware used. ...Despite many decades of progress since the first calculating equipment was used in the 1890 census, it was not until the mid-1960s that this phenomenon was even noticed. View quote
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No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea. View quote
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By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. View quote
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Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow. View quote
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People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight. View quote
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We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. View quote
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Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes. View quote
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If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning. View quote
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Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water. (Ray Kurzweil)
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution. View quote
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New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus. View quote
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The Law of Accelerating Returns: As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up (that is, the time interval between salient events grows shorter as time passes). View quote
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The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future. View quote
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