Ray Kurzweil Originally aired 2-01-99

[mrdexter86]

worst host ever

[vrshowdown]

lol he looks younger today then he was in 1999

[ScoundrelzNTwK]

@serialkiller2028 is the father of lies hiring by any chance?

[TheLucianWalker]

the host is a monkey, ray is an alien

[TheLucianWalker]

@rebelagainstslavery you are a genius

[TheLucianWalker]

@serialkiller2028 you are brilliant

[genraz]

yeah the host is ridic

[17R3W]

Just FYI, Ray Kurzweil is going to be on TWiT next week. You can watch on TWiT.tv or right here on youtube @ youtube (dot) com slash twit

[shade1978x]

@serialkiller2028 What a nutbar you are. lol

[4QBUD]

WOW, Who could have predicted that progress would be measured exponentially with only our own past to gauge by. This "Writer" who attended MIT along with tens of thousands of other students over the years is a pretty good guesser. His 1st grade teacher would give him a Check Plus for his predictions with only our own past to build upon. Next time I want information about the Future of Mankind I need simply ask a "Technical writer" with a Big Head!

[glaatraa]

@4QBUD Do you even know who Ray Kurzweil is?

[GRIJZEKAK]

Ray looks older then, than he looks now. His anti-aging medicines seem to work.

[Saerain]

@GRIJZEKAK I think you might be focusing overmuch on his skin tone. He has certainly aged.

[Pacinofan78]

HEY HOST, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

[Pacinofan78]

@rebelagainstslavery So Satan is a machine?

[Pacinofan78]

Wow, this interviewer is a reeeeeeal pain in the ass!

[Pacinofan78]

You can tell Kurzweil is a little annoyed by this guy's senility.

[Pacinofan78]

@silent9173 Yeah, he does seem kinda senile.

[Pacinofan78]

bottom line is, Singularity or not, we'll still have amazing tech. Everything Kurzweil predicts, despite a waking conscious machine.

[buzznandes]

My exponential predictions:

- Did you noticed that the girls are getting exponential hotter over the times ? (one day they will have a self integrated biological photoshop in their skin)

- And that they are getting exponnentially harder to get ?

[MasterOnlineMarketer]

@buzznandes That is hilarious, but yes I did notice that!!!!

[buzznandes]

Listen to him at 29:54: In 20 years a PC will have the power of human brain (2020).

Well the new predicts he made now is 2045...it´s always getting further...

[BrockMFS]

@buzznandes nah he predicts around 2045 computer technology will be smarter than the combination of all the minds throughout the world. Hes been pretty accurate just look up all the other business hes predicted

[bighands69]

@buzznandes

That is a completely inaccurate statement you have made and in no way has any connection with Ray Kurzweil's thesis.

[buzznandes]

@bighands69 I hope to have the time to figure out wich scientist are posting other statements about the year for the singularity.

One scientist said 2045 is the most logical, if after that there is no singularity it´s because it´s more complicated that we tought.

If that happens we will have to re-study the situation and re-make a new prediction.

[TurnonTubeinDropOut]

Funny to see his pitch has not changed a lot over 10 years.

I do believe humanity should not focus a lot on what is or what is not possible with techknowledgy but more on why and how we should apply techknowledgy.

[4everkeim]

Kurzweil looks a bit older back then.

[BobbynEdward]

All life on Earth collaborated to form higher intelligence; an unbroken line back to our primordial beginnings.

Life cannot be contained, it must burst forth. Consciousness is the same. It cannot be contained (especially within a box of human conception). We look at the wondrous plants and animals of this planet, and know them as myriad expressions of an elemental happening. Maybe consciousness is also a singular event; one that human, technological, planetary, and cosmic are all joined.

[darrenmmurtha]

Is Ray Kurzweil the evil twin of Woody Allan, or is Woody Allan the evil twin of Ray Kurzweil?

[sharons813]

Don't let them sugar coat it...it's all about CONTROL!!!!!

[soyyoprqgnt8811]

Meaning what? Explain please?

[bighands69]

@sharons813

how is it about control.

and why would "THEY" want to control us if they have that level of technology.

[sharons813]

Here's an even bigger picture on WHERE the technology is coming from...

CHECK>>>>'the fourth kind' trailer!!!!!

Then check the new crop circle that formed this month....The Owl!!!!

[sharons813]

Want to see where 'their' trying to take the people?...

...conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -----David Rockefeller

CHECK>>>>Rockefeller Reveals 9/11 FRAUD to Aaron Russo'!!

CHECK>>>>'The Brain Chip - A Prison For Your Mind'' This is a MUST SEE!!!!

CHECK>>>>'Brain Chip - The US Has Ordered Millions of Them'

[dollarability]

I also wonder what Kurzweil thinks about the tech bubble that popped a few years after his celebration of the expanding economy, and now the crash.

[soyyoprqgnt8811]

tech is crashing? I beg to differ!

[dollarability]

I'd like to know if uploading a perfect copy of his brain into a completely functional robotic body were available now, would Kurzweil opt to kill his physical body and upload himself or would he wait till the end of his biological life?

[jettisoncargo]

+1 for Ray.

-Several million for the stupid host

[Gunth0r]

"hahaha the electron got developed??"

[matchbox555]

I HATE THE HOST

[BrockMFS]

@matchbox555 I concur good sir

[Eldel15]

@matchbox555 LOL the host is always like this!

[MainTightSqueeze]

"Yesss, you're an invent-whore." Haha. Crazy host. Ray, you're awesome.

[MrHelyas]

I loled at the longest question ever asked at 39:33

[matchbox555]

i could read kurzweil's mind during this segment, he was thinking "shut the fuck up"

[nightsoldier1112]

The host has to be socially retarded. Does he not understand that, when you ask someone a question and they answer it, you're not supposed to add a little affirmation or comment every 2 seconds? I wish I could reach through my monitor to shut him the hell up!

[BoyintheMachine]

It's his channel. I'm sure he reads the comments.

[hellcat059]

What's with the camera shake at 22:33

Fuck! Where's my rifle?

[interwoven222]

the host is a hottie, I just want to give him a him a big sloppy smooch, tickle his belly

[cybersphere]

he's actually an alien. there are other interviews with him on this site from 20 years ago, where he looks exactly the same.

[eche73]

The host is retarded.

[stankballz71]

who cares how old he looks ppl,...i mean really?

[RDpapichulo]

lol, welcome to virtula reality conversations

[theadvent123]

wow I don't know what he does but he looks younger in the more recent videos...

[streater2005]

thats because he is actually biologically younger now than he was when this video was made. He is using is money to become younger and live longer. He actually plans to live forever.

[fatherprime]

"We will eventually be able to eat the material needs of all human beings." - The Computer Corporate Reptilian Alien Cannibal Cult Leading Entity of the Lower Fourth Dimension

[matchbox555]

the interviewer is a dismissive dickhead

[rksobers]

not exactly he just wants to show that he knows stuff too but he happens to be a little immature about it

[1x93cm]

lol it'd be hard to have a conversation with ray kurzwiel without feeling like an idiot

[lonecretin]

Kurzweil is the biggest idiot of them all. A genius in inventing, but an complete idiot in trying to predict the future.

[commandersprocket]

What bad predictions has he made? It seems like he's been able to do quite well predicting the future successfully.

[timninerell]

What the hell is the point of this over-the-top technology? AI? Damn. Some people worry so much about inventing all this technology, rather than just living life. It's so unneccisary. I would rather do my own thing and enjoy the simpler things in life.

[locusSol]

I think they are enjoying simpler thigs in life by creating all those technology.

[1x93cm]

i think ppl just enjoy researching and creating new technologies...it's what they want to do with their lives

[commandersprocket]

Some people like problem solving. It's intrinsically rewarding for them. That is "doing my own thing" for them.

[danger0usknowledge]

Kurzweil might just last until 2020. I'm looking forward to the time when, as a conscious program in orbit around Earth,

I'll be able to think a tmail message on the sww(solarwideweb) & it will appear instantly in the Kerzweil conscious algorithm

mining an asteroid belt. With advanced filtering the kca will automatically

bump me into the sww spam dump.

[mlndstream]

So....he's trying to create artificial beings who will be used by the wealthy power elite to enslave or eliminate redundant humans(who wont have jobs or money to buy this technology because machines do them for free)before the masses multiply to the point they destroy this planet or rebel and overthrow the elite power base?.How unfortunate we will all be assumed to be one of those masses:\

[Blackthornerose]

What is not being understood is how cheap and widespread this technology will be, and therefore difficult to control by any "power elite" except itself. It will be far more enlightened than any human government.

The danger is not that this technology will be developed.

The greater concern is what will we do with this tired and overpopulated planet if it doesn't arise?

Pray for the Singularity children.

It's life or death for us.

A blessing on your head

May you live to see the Singularity.

[mlndstream]

Blackthornerose point concerning how cheap this technology could eventually become is interesting, but I'm not sure its availability will keep pace with such a drasticly increasing world population of increasingly selfish people. I get the feeling that spiritual wisdom is needed far more than technological intelligence. And theres a big difference between intelligence and wisdom, there not the same.

[Bzdi138]

I'm just amazed that RK looks younger now than he did as someone pointed out.  wow

[angel2901]

Yeah! Sure that popping 200 pillls a day helped him look younger now than back than.

[RESISTORSERVE]

the fuck the illuminati & ray kurzweil

[rotoscoop]

all amazing inventions get weaponized.

[luchie78]

If you watch Ray Kurzeil's face as the bald man dribbles away, you will notice his amusement at the man's never-ending rambles.

[drroundtube]

Incredible! The kind of future that I've predicted since the 60's when people were saying that computers will never be more than a simple machine. I believe that they will be symbiotic with human intelligence, and being human will take on a new meaning. Truck Driver's Web Site: GOOGLE Keyword "Dr. Warpenstein"

[streetrider180]

i predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10000 times larger and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of europe will own them.

[Pr0x1mo]

No dude. In his book it explains how computers get smaller and cheaper. Pretty soon, scrap paper made of computers faster than ours will be as cheap as regular paper and be discarded as such.

[streetrider180]

you missed it man.

[sbrown314]

If they looked inside the interviewer's brain, as Kurzweil suggests, they would probably find peanut butter.

[Gnosis85]

Kurzweil actually looks older in this interview than he does now, in 2007.

[clowndan]

I read he takes 200 vitamin supplaments a day

[Gnosis85]

More like 250-300.

[undefinedego]

the interviewer just sounded like a dumb parrot repeating everything that kurzweil said.

[TheSurrenderTheHate]

all this is flimflam. flimflam i say flimflam.

[oscillator]

The interviewer needs to stop interrrupting with his incoherent incomplete sentences.

[AD2080]

Exactly. Aging will never be conquered in our lifetime. Those who are deluding themselves by sitting there waiting and dreaming for immortality are in for one huge disappointment.

[dysphonix]

you definietely don't understand the laws of accelerating return and kurzweil has established. through known and found science, that this will happen withing 50 years...

[D1g1t4L4ng3L]

I think it is wise to never say never.. but who knows. Maybe aging as you think of it may not be solved but there could be a different way to go into this by preserving the information you have contained in your brain and transferring it into a different form...So we may be able to preserve this aspect of humankind and integrate it with technology to take different forms. It depends what you define immortality as: does it have to entail being in the shape of a human as we now know it?

[SunsetPalmsO]

this bold man has the longest sentences ive ever seen in  a intervewer

[Cyberman86]

All those that say this is non-sense Cra*, Are just a bunch of ignorants that don't even know in what century they live. Thanks to this people that have spent their whole life studying instead of partying, and sitting their Ass in the couch, you are living so comfortable in this world.

[AD2080]

It is nonsense, and it is crap.

[zohar18]

Malthus believed that we would be extinct as a species by now due to overconsumption of the Earth's scarce resources. But humans have consistently adapted.

Don't underestimate humans.

[case76]

Who dares to call this man the inventor of cybernetics does not know where this came from. Please do some research... look for Norbert Wiener and finally for James Clerk Maxwells paper on self regulating steam engines.

Thanks in advance.

[antpoo]

I dont know where adbatstone is coming from because this Kurzweil is a proven intellect and what he speaks seems perfectly logical.

[AD2080]

I come from a place called reality, somewhere that Kurzweil doesn't dwell.

[antpoo]

I would like to see you try and interview. This guy has over 30 years experience at that time and has met the likes of people most commercial reporters/journalists can only dream of.

[grahrarog]

The guy who interviewed him probably didn't even read the book. He talks like he has a piece of stake in his mouth and is asking stupid questions. Kurzweil on the other hand is, as always, great! Love his work and he is (in most parts, but most likely on all parts) right.

[ivancalmona]

hes the guy in history...

hes huge in music and among handicaped people

LOL

hes pretty cool, but he undermines the stupidity of religion and luditism.

[nawitus]

Kurzweil always says the same things

[expr]

I find his work pretty compelling and have to disagree w/you there.

[adbatstone]

Great, another precious hour of internet video wasted on this quackpot. Kurzweil reminds me of Wynford Dore, another rich huckster peddling what he alone calls the ultimate solution to a particular problem.

Thank god for Bob Seidensticker's "Future Hype: The Myhts of Technology Change".

[flkjeio]

People like you have said "It can't be done" for ages. They're always wrong and soon you'll join their honorless ranks.

[danger0usknowledge]

Hey there luddite fella, Kurzweil's having

some serious fun. He doesn't need the damn

money he needs the time.)