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• Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

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  Dust, Next, Evolution

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• The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

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  Running, Technology, Water

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book by John Brockman, 2003.

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• Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

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  Technology, Reality, Differences

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• Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

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  Life And Death, Giving, Too Much

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin

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• In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

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  Technology, Phones, Self

  "Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director Of Engineering, Wants To Bring The Dead Back To Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2012.

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• We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

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  Creativity, Tools

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• As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

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  Light, Sublime, Awakening

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• Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

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  Believe, Our World, Order

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• By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

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  Programming, Portions

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.264, Penguin

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• Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

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  Imagination, Intuition, Weak

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• The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

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  Stories, Levels, Evolution

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.1948, Penguin

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• Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

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  Creativity, Ideas, People

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• By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

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  Real, Technology, Personality

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• We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

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  Baby, Mean, Opportunity

  "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". Book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005.

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• When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.

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  Powerful, Phones, Cells

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• By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

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  Eyeglasses, Lenses, Computer

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• Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

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  Cutting, Emotional, Sideshows

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• Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

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  Creating, People, Tools

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

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  Long, World, Trends

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• The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

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  Intelligent, Essence, Information

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.99, Penguin

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• Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

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  Simple, Interesting, Intelligence

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.142, Penguin

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• By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

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  Reality, Eyeglasses, Woven

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

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  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• Play is just another version of work

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  Play, Versions

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.439, Penguin

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• If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

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  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

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