Ray Kurzweil - Futurist

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Everything is exponential to Ray Kurzweil. Ray has studied technology trends for a long time. An avid futurist, and as some say a transhumanist, he wants to understand what technological advances the future is going to bring. Want to know what the technology of the future will look like? Ray can imagine it. Not without his share of critics, he believes we will have enough solar energy to meet our needs in 16 years and a complete understanding of how the human brain works in the next 20 years. "Evolution is a spiritual process," he says, bringing us closer to "the ideal of God."
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Science & Technology

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• singularity
• technology growth
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• Ray Kurzweil

[SVBarnard]

Hell yeah man i hope the future is bright. I hate my life right now. Life right now is bleak and hopeless. I have no job. No money. No girlfriend. The economy is still in the dumps. Fuck my life. I just hope the future is better.

[Doricc]

Ray is an absolute genius...

[Keim4ever]

@andrewfink1 Very nicely put! I wish there wasn't so much opposision to transhumanism and the singularity. It's our future, its the only way people can live as long as they want and explore space.

[Keim4ever]

@BlackJackLanza says the person who know what the future holds. 

[andrewfink1]

@ssmith87 are going to start going down because people in those areas are having less children due to higher and higher standereds of living(in comparison before) also i dont buy into that conspiraccy bull

[andrewfink1]

@ssmith87 nah the cellphone used to be for the elite but now a super rich persons phone probably isnt much better then my smartphone...also things like nano tech and genetic enginering are getting cheaper evrey year. keeping it to the top 1% would be bad marketing but if the "elite" means the first world then sure...also populations ae going to start going down after about 10billon because europe,the americas(the whole thing),sub saharan africa, and (mostespecially) east asias populations

[ssmith87]

Thr "better life" talked about here is for the world's elite...not the general public. This parellels with the eugenicists beliefs (of population reduction and it's not just a few people) be it Francis Galton, Malthus,The Huxley bros, Edward Bernays, or Bill Gates, Ted Turner and now we hear Al Gore on board (recently in Rolling Stone Mag). For those who think there is something in it for you or somehow be selected to enjoy the future. crackpot comments are welcomed, followed by no response

[BlackJackLanza]

@SVBarnard Yep the future will be great! For US! YOU--you'll still be jacking off in moms bedroom!

[Dolphidood]

I'm not religious or an athiest but as there is a chance of there being God as there is only evidence for each side with no proof... I will not in my lifetime become computerised for a 'better life' when there is a potential no matter how small of there being a paradise that I could miss out on because I broke the unforgivable only if true and not assumed so. 'better life' because I think we are always suffering to a greater or lesser degree so acceptance is evolutionary and not escape.

[kasuskasus]

It's not only exponential growth that's predictable. Ray's interviews are too. If you've seen one or two, you've basically seen them all. :P

[saiyan888x]

@OxygenBurglar You have been saying loads of bullshit all over the videos regarding these arguments of the future. What is wrong with you, really. You seem like you are upset and disturbed by these things. How can you be so retarded to not enjoy the view of a so bright future. The only truth here is the Kurzweil's one, and , sorry to say that, it looks like it is hurting to YOU :)... You better change your attitude or you will be one of those which the people will laugh at.

[OxygenBurglar]

Kurzweil's gospel axe has been swung for far too long.