Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Scientific advances are enabled by a technology advance that allows us to see what we have not been able to see before.” — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Electronic circuits are millions of times faster than our biological circuits. At first we will have to devote all of this speed… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The prediction that the Singularity—an expansion of human intelligence by a factor of trillions through merger with its nonbiological form—will occur within… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence,… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
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… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious… Does it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
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… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
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