Ray Kurzweil: How technology’s accelerating power will transform us
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www.ted.com Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
DRINK SOME FUCKING WATER!!!!
If you believe Kurzweil’s bullshit for one second, then you’ve been had. You’re blind. Belief in Kurzweil’s misunderstandings about the human brain requires a complete and utter suspension of critical faculties. If I was Ray, I would rethink my position as techno-spiritual leader and blatherer of nonsense as soon-as-freaking-possible.
I have the same contempt for Kurzweil (Church of Singularitarianism) as I do with people like L. Ron Hubbard (Church of Scientology) and Rael (Church of Raelism). He’s so obviously full of caca it’s not funny. He does not understand a thing about the brain, and his techno-spiritual buffoonery needs to be ignored at all costs.
This is a FANTASTIC summary of the whole transhumanism/singularity/futurism thing in general. An excellent presentation from Ray Kurzweil, whose presentations can normally be quite dry and bland. Welcome to the knee of the curve gents…. hopefully we can all collectively make the most of it.
Kurzweil is a religious leader and a pseudoscientific nincompoop. He’s so fucking wrong it’s not funny. PZ Myers tore his pathetic ravings apart in his recent blog post, and I like that.
Is it me or does Ray have this exhuberant air of pretentiousness about him? I don’t know if its the way he speaks but one part of me wants to listen while the other part wants to punch him in the face. I’m usually more tame about these impulses, but I can’t put my finger on it as to why I feel this way.
@GoldwireIT I suppose you’re responding to the thing I am here, I’m sitting here watching youtube on my computer in 2010 and he says by 2010 there wont be computers.
but you’re saying he just mispoke and he meant 2020? because that makes way more sense
Are the slides used in this talk available on the Internet?
Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand The Brain.
Why does he sound like he needs to burp constantly…
So what will the big fear be about nano technology, that there will be gray goo that kills us, that it will be used for mind control or will it simply be banned because god doesn’t want it? Sadly sciences progress is being slowed down by fear and ignorance and because of that we will have to wait much longer for these great technologies.
Sadly technology won’t progress at the rate said because people at the moment are ignorant and afraid of science. GM foods could help feed the world and with enough support even end world hunger but do to fear people try to band GM foods because they truly believe that eating it will change there genetics and cause them to grow an arm out of there forehead. Stem cell research also showed great promise but do to ignorance it was banned for many years slowing down progress.
This epic progress, but I want holograms
wow… replace 30% of your red blood cells and you can hold your breath underwater for 4 hours?
Maybe he’s an optimist, but the only way to force these revolutionary paradigm shifts is to COMPLETELY IGNORE the signs of today. In the middle ages the educated priests and scholars of the day saw a world of darkness around them that was swiftly spiraling towards an abyss of darkness. They said “this must certainly be the end of times!”
Look at us today, zipping around the world in hours instead of months or years. We simply have no way to really know and understand what the future holds.
@OxygenBurglar Eh. The elimination of aging thing seems to be going places, the others, not so much. You’re half-right.
I don’t care about computers. But I’ll NEVER EVER buy any human shaped real sized robot with an AI. I’d rather mop my house every day.
@Chance411
you said it. The problem most people face is mindset
@OxygenBurglar pay attention
draco18s is right. I just cannot see even a speck of evidence that greater-than-human AI, the elimination of aging and nanobots making us super-smart are just around the corner. It WILL take 100-200 years, NOT 40-50, for these things to arrive. The only chance we have at seeing these things is cryonics, and that’s a crapshoot.
@SVBarnard Ray Kurzweil isn’t trying to end the world, you’re right. But he is wrong about the future. He may be trying to word towards a utopia, but sadly, all of the keystones to “how to solve all the world’s problems by 2050″ won’t exist soon enough (and in some cases we’ve already passed the point of no return).
Kurzweil is overly optimistic about the future, and while I’d like him to be right, I know he’s wrong. I see the signs all around me every day.
100 IQ is crime. New law.
Ray Kurzweil just might be the Einstein of this century. Completely uninhibited by limitations. He is the eternal optimist.
This what holds us back. 99.999 percent of us think in terms of limitations. The true geniuses only think of what is possible.
Light without the sun? Impossible.
Human flight? You must be crazy.
Only the ignorant hold us back from our destiny.
@OxygenBurglar But it wasn’t sidetracked during the second world war, and even though the US economy will be on the rocks for many years, our technology is constantly improving. My G1 phone is more useful than my laptop. More than likely China will begin churning out new technologies at a rapid pace as well. So I disagree with Treder, and Kurzweil’s predictions are based on mathematical models and empirical data over many decades. Treder’s argument doesn’t hold water.
@timen1986 Get the heck outta here! LOL