Raymond Kurzweil: Changes in Information Technology

Raymond Kurzweil discusses three important trends he wrote about in his book: the exponential growth of information technology, how information technology is increasingly pervasive, and the increasing decentralization of our technology base of our infrastructure.

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes, Kurzweil's ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, ranging from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. Inc. Magazine ranked him number eight among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison," and PBS included him as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America." Kurzweil developed the first omni-font optical character recognition (OCR,) the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed, large-vocabulary speech recognition.

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[thoughtwaretv]

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[danieleriskay]

What exactly do you disagree about with regards to human evolution?

[NPRCVI]

A related criticism is based on the notion that is difficult to predict the future, and any number of bad predictions from other futurists in earlier eras can be cited to support this. Predicting which company or product will succeed is indeed very difficult, if not impossible. The same difficulty occurs in predicting which technical design or standard will prevail. Moreover, we CAN reliably predict the capabilities of these technologies at future points in time. Kurzweil ISBN 0-14-303788-9

[Meowbay]

The question should be: *How* can you possibly "disagree" with factual information of existing data?

[brentkearney]

The rest of it would be nice.

[Kwasi5179]

I boldly disagree with "human evolution". However, I think Kurzweil is accurate regarding technological evolution. One singularity - interesting concept. Considering what I refer to as "multi-exponential growth", I have NO doubt technology will be exactly what most of us thought it could never become. Very exciting/scary. I've always said, with whatever technology exists, also exists the means to counteract it. So when we talk neurological networks.... manipulating our memories, etc... scary