Ray Kurzweil - Futurist

It may take not only a scientist but an entrepreneur to understand that technology is a Darwinian evolutionary process. I hope parents think that this subject is age-appropriate for a 12 year old, because we need our 12 year olds to be thinking much more clearly than we do now. They need to think about what technological power is arriving rapidly and how we can best utilize this profoundly accelerating technology to benefit intelligent life on this planet. Too many kids are being kept in dark.

...that come with that (paradoxically until the brain discards the effects of the psychotropic) is where the technology no matter how well merged or manufactured could ever transcend our perception of the speed of light or mankind becoming 2nd class citizens because the moment of birth is not necessarily the moment of your consciousness - so how could we engineer infinity in that respect? I am on Ray's team all the way - I feel there needs more recognition of more ancient mind expansion kits..

...The ability to randomly percieve things/pattern recognition etc when enhanced not by AI or implants even biological nanobots but with adult approach to chemical or indeed DMT use leads to a perception of infinity/immortality etc. Now combine the digital capturing of this perception and I would be all for the singularity as an inevitablity without organic/non organic distinction. However the ability of the mind in conjuncture with precise chemicals and the immortal sensations...

...minded approach to the possibility of digitally capturing information achieved through extremely well controlled DMT or Ketamine experiences - as the dendrides - synapses & electrical signals behave and are actually internally interracting with more similarity to the strangely vibrating quantic world. If we could, for example, capture the local knowledge of a Shaman's visions digitally, perhaps the positive singularity I think Ray Kurzweil illuminates would yield TRULY useful...

I actually think the word 'drugs' is probably wrong - but in terms of synapses/linear thought patterns and thoughts on an infinite (perceived by the user) level, I think the digital & analogue information being linear & brain computation speed is actually the definition of infinity or indeed immmortality itself. Matching, cloning & digitally growing cerebellums is fun & essential but cost & effect can be what distresses joe public & inventors alike.. I think that with a slightly more open...

Search engines came into mass use only about 10 years ago

Kursweil has invented things in the HERE and now that people use everyday.

Significant life extension is different from immortality. Immortality in our universe as a human being is impossible. We would have to become omniscient beings in order to achieve immortality.

Its spelled "here"...

And rather than making a funnylooking impractical transportation device (segway), Kurzweil likes to work towards science and technology that will evolve mankind in ways we cannot imagine, while solving every problem ever known to man, even if it takes a little longer to invent it.

Also, calling Kurzweils vision of 'immortality' "irrational" only proves that you need to do a whole lot more research on the topic, i suggest Aubrey de Grey, hes the leader on this topic atm.

because the changes are small now, i show you my conception
0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, 1.6, 3.2, 6.4, 12.8, 25.6, 51.2, 102.4, 204.8, 409.6, 819.2 1638.4 3276.8, 6553.6, 13107.2, 26214.4..... ( thats the exponential growth)
at the moment we could be at 0.2( its only an example) and many people doesn't notice acceleration but it will be growing exponentially.