Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us

He said 2020 not 2010.

Wait, what are you talking about?

Where can I get these Respirocytes? My girlfriend would love for me to be able to out perform an Olympic athlete. LOL.

Can't wait for this kind of technology.

The thing is that we can use technology in a different way! And we must return to nature and learn from it! Nature is our god really, we are just not aware of it yet as a species. Indian Ayurvedic and Chineese medicine have done some things for thousands of years, which western (chemistry based) medicine still can not. OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THE RULING ELITE, and not the science community! If we change the system in which we live many problems would disappear! Like for example energy crisis.

Yea, we could do all these things... if "they" let us!!!

On a rocket sled headed toward a wall called singularity, surrounded by monkeys whooping and screeching "faster, faster!"

I am a futurist, but I am not a transhumanist, science without boundaries will destroy mankind - before we even really know what we are.

Transhumanism, singularity, these terms are equivalent to eschatology, or an apocalypse.

Cleverly packaging death or perfect enslavement as transcendence - while the unrealized potential of organic life goes wanting or is debased.

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.