Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Kurzweil Joins Google!
Google has just hired futurist Ray Kurzweil to be Director of Engineering:
That sounds a lot like the critics of the Human Genome Project. When only 1% had been completed seven years into the project, they declared it would take hundreds of years to complete the job. Seven years later it was completed, ahead of schedule.
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That sounds a lot like the critics of the Human Genome Project. When only 1% had been completed seven years into the project, they declared it would take hundreds of years to complete the job. Seven years later it was completed, ahead of schedule.
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