[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in opti...
[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality and financial investment. He is the author of numerous books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), the technological singularity and futurism. The Kurzweilian version of the future is the inevitable merger of humans and intelligent machines.
In this discussion with Computer History Museum Senior Curator Dag Spicer, Kurzweil shares his vision of how technology will re-shape the human body (and culture generally) into one that incorporates advanced technologies into a new type of post-human organism. Kurzweil sees this transformation occurring over the next 20 to 50 years and beginning with the integration of electronic-based systems into the human body. Some decades after that, a further transformation occurs--one based on nanotechnology—which incorporates the manipulation and construction of interfaces and complex systems based on atomic-level structures that merge with and control specific bodily functions and attack its problems (i.e. cancer). Some of the philosophical implications of Kurzweils vision are also discussed.
Like to rate videos and let people know what you think?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Like to share videos with friends?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
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...
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.
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.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
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.
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.