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. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water. — 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
