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http://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://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Wow! Throwback to a genius! Most of his predictions came true in this decade!
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Man this is old, and most of his Predictions for the 2010s did come true, let's see if the predictions for 2020's do the same or not.
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did he just say by 2010 computers will disappear? @ 19:50
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Over the course of his presentation, his use of the word "exponential" increased exponentially
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Wooow... I wanna be Spiderman in a virtual world lol
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What a fucking nightmare. Genetically altering the human genome and changing our biology with nanotechnology is at an early stage and the exponential growth which will be derived from this technological application will revolutionize nothing except control of the human soul. Transhumanism will be the end of humanity for there is no singularity outside of us as Kurzweil suggests but the essence of what makes us human, consciousness will be locked down by self replicating nanotechnology programmed for control. "Have the will to apply them to the right problems?" Promise or Peril! The future application is right there in his words and in my view it arises from the belief that we are mortal beings so we must be able to make our meat-sticks immortal. A futile en devour!
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Thank you Ray. Thank God there are people like this who are devoted to thinking, analyzing, and improving the world.
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Too many people are getting caught up on how he said 2010 vice 2010's. It's a public speech, not a written essay; he probably meant 2010's and wasn't making predictions for these things to occur in just 3 years from when this was posted.
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The biggest issue seems to be when experts in a field pretend to be experts in (or knowledgeable enough about) another field so as to make predictions. Kurzweil is a known, verified and obvious visionary who has proven himself numerous times as an accurate predictor of technological trends. However, this says nothing about his understanding of biology, genetics, evolution or the processes that drive the human body.
No objective, rational, intellectually-honest person can watch a technologist make these predictions on the merging of science and physical human processes without having a modicum of skepticism. It's like if Richard Dawkins were to make claims to know how a certain area of chemistry is going to define human evolution. He's an evolutionary biologist, not a chemist.
It's far more interesting to watch experts bounce these things off of each other than to hear one expert in a field talk about things that he objectively does not have the training, education and knowledge to claim an especially elegant perspective on. -
Everything he said back then is actually on track!
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i already have a second brain that controlls most of my actions, but he hangs out with 2 nutjobs
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french presentation for my friends : Inventeur, entrepreneur et visionnaire Ray Kurzweil explique en détail abondant, mise à la terre pourquoi, ici les années 2020, nous seront ont désossé le cerveau humain et nanorobots fonctionnera votre conscience.
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Looks like Ray Kurzweil is right about exponential growth in world solar electric output. This article ( http://www.silverdoctors.com/reason-1-the-silver-noose-is-tightening/ ) is about silver, but it also talks about how much solar is contributing to to the total worlds output. The article says that worlds solar electric output is currently ( 9/14 ) is somewhere between 6% and 9% of total world output. Kurzweil has been saying that solar output will double every 2 years. A little math. let's use 6% for 2014. Then we will have 12% for 2016. Jumping ahead then to 2022 output should be 96% of total world output.
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The though of having small robots inside your head that can alter how you see things is rather unsettling.
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Who wants a computer in their brain controlled by nanobots sounds crazy
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the effect of progressing technology on society is also very well shown here: 'The Future of Work and Death' http://kck.st/1iUzsuh
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This video is anti-Semitic trash, If I do not receive 6-billion dollars in goy-coins as reparation for my hurt feelings I will see you in court good sir.
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You people don't realize that 2010's and 2020's does not equal 2010 or 2020, but it is about the decade. When he says we will be using wearable technology by 2010's, it's not actually 2010, but somewhere between 2010 and 2019. Considering we are starting to use technologies like that in 2014, he was right.
Laptop and desktop computers will be around even in 2030 and beyond.