It is about neither Ray Kurzweil accelerating intelligence nor the coming of the singularity.
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Renowned innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that within 20 years we will have our energy problem licked.
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Its founder, Ray Kurzweil, recently joined Google as its Director of Engineering.
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Most of the big names in the Singularity movement are featured here, including Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.
Ray Kurzweil believes that the logical consequence is a technological singularity, where man and machine become hopelessly intertwined.
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The keynote speakers this year include humorist Baratunde Thurston, "cyber anthropologist" Amber Case, Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Crane has a long history covering innovation, interviewing SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, famed futurist and Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, and NASA's William Gerstenmaier.
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Brooklyn, New York ( VBS.TV) -- In the year 2050, if Ray Kurzweil is right, nanoscopic robots will be zooming throughout our capillaries, transforming us into nonbiological humans.
This is the vehicle version of Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory.
Reminded me of what inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has said about our inability to think exponentially (the reason perhaps that we cannot fathom the accelerating rate of change in the sciences).
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In the AI optimist camp, futurist and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil also sees intelligent machines precipitating human extinction, of a sort, only in Kurzweil's telling, humanity is not exterminated but subsumed into a superintelligent machine.
In his latest movie, Transcendent Man, Ray Kurzweil foresees that nanobots will soon inhabit our bodies, help us keep track of our conditions and treat us accordingly and automatically (a phenomenon referred to as Singularity).
Ray Kurzweil certainly thinks so.
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Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.
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