http://www.ted.com Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be op...
http://www.ted.com Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
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05:34 Countdown to Singularity - excellent explanation of how evolution is accelerating rapidly and moving into profoundly exponential technological growth NOW!
02:36 Kurzweil says that most business plans succeed in building what they attempt to build, but they fail 90% of the time because the market is not ready for them. Wow! Have i found this to be true in 40 years of business experience.
I dont see anyone refuting his idea on an intelectual level here. He is clear: "If we can convert 0.03 of the sunlight that falls on the earth in to energy(...) " He, as an industrial, project the coming tecnology. If one wants to focus on actual tecnological problems, one should focus on the energy problem we face nowadays.
find any bit of coast and you can build a machine which uses tidal power to raise massive weights which then have to turn a gearing system to settle back when the tide goes out.
or you can fly a kite designed to rotate in the high atmosphere where there is constant wind. the torque it puts on its tether can drive a generator.
or you could catch rain water in large containers which are on a seesaw against an counterweight with a gearing mechanism to extract mechanical energy and thus power.
I don't know about all the fancy things Kurzweil suggests, but I'm sure the 3 ideas I gave above are feasible with the level of technology I can see around me.
What is the best and easiest way to make money. Think of something that offers hope and deliverance from the daily realities and hardships of people's lives.Then write a book about the pseudo-religious idea and sit back and enjoy the money rolling in. If you feel bored: keep repeating the same message in shows and conferences.Does this remind you of Ray Kurzwel ? It sure does! The man is an exceptional marketeer and salesman. He sold you thin air and made money from it. Well done ray.
I don't think it's going to happen at all. But there's only one way to find out--contact me in 20 years or so and I bet we'll still be normal, everyday people, not freakish cyborg machine/human hybrids(pardon the redundancy) ha ha.
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He, as an industrial, project the coming tecnology. If one wants to focus on actual tecnological problems, one should focus on the energy problem we face nowadays.
or you can fly a kite designed to rotate in the high atmosphere where there is constant wind. the torque it puts on its tether can drive a generator.
or you could catch rain water in large containers which are on a seesaw against an counterweight with a gearing mechanism to extract mechanical energy and thus power.
Think of something that offers hope and deliverance from the daily realities and hardships of people's lives.Then write a book about the pseudo-religious idea and sit back and enjoy the money rolling in. If you feel bored: keep repeating the same message in shows and conferences.Does this remind you of Ray Kurzwel ? It sure does! The man is an exceptional marketeer and salesman. He sold you thin air and made money from it. Well done ray.
But yes, if I see him I would tell him "where are my optical implants, damn it!"