I've been reading written works by Ray Kurzweil for a couple of years now and I would like to bring him to the attention of anyone interested in anything that has to do with the future ...
"Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil, born February 12, 1948, is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), trans-humanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.
Kurzweil characterizes evolution throughout all time as progressing through six epochs, each one building on the one before. He says the four epochs which have occurred so far are Physics and Chemistry, Biology and DNA, Brains, and Technology.
Kurzweil touches on the history of the Singularity concept, tracing it back to John von Neumann in the 1950s and I. J. Good in the 1960s. He compares his Singularity to that of a mathematical or astrophysical singularity. While his ideas of a Singularity is not actually infinite, he says it looks that way from any limited perspective.
During the Singularity, Kurzweil predicts that "human life will be irreversibly transformed" and that humans will transcend the "limitations of our biological bodies and brain". He looks beyond the Singularity to say that "the intelligence that will emerge will continue to represent the human civilization." Further, he feels that "future machines will be human, even if they are not biological".
Kurzweil claims once non-biological intelligence predominates the nature of human life will be radically altered:there will be radical changes in how humans learn, work, play, and wage war. Kurzweil envisions nanobots which allow people to eat whatever they want while remaining thin and fit, provide copious energy, fight off infections or cancer, replace organs and augment their brains. Eventually people's bodies will contain so much augmentation they'll be able to alter their "physical manifestation at will"."
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing! Any info regarding glasses that utilize an optical character recognition system, such as these from OrCam? Essentially, they're talking glasses for the blind that use AI technology to help with reading for those who can't read on their own. So interesting and incredible to hear about the advancing world of vision with AI and OCR. Thanks for sharing!
:) yes! so good! thank you for reading!
i've been interested in Ray Kurzweil ever since a friend told me about nano technology
:) same here!
Tis an interesting topic to discuss. I am on the other side of the conversation. I believe we have the potential to become less and less assimilated with technology while maintaining a respected coexistence. I envision less robots, less computers, because the ones we'll develop will be superior in function. I believe this will allow us to live our lives more fully as humans. Even the blockchain has begun to confirm this, as Musicoin rewards musicians, thus relying less on an antiquated business model, SingularTV will allow you to create your own Television Channel and Programming thus rewarding human story telling, and blockchains such as PEERITY and MatchPool begin to reward us for Live Human Interactions. Time will tell of course. Thank you for sharing this .
:) i appreciate your positivity on this subject bro... I remain hopeful too..Ray Kurzweil is an interesting guy..Definitely check out more of his writings
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I love Ray Kurzweil. It's funny I got turned on to him by accident from an electronic producer's track in the Mid-90s that had a dialogue of his throughout the track.