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. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
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. — 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
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 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 directly to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — 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 and therefore… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
