"The Singularity denotes an event that will take……" — Ray Kurzweil
"The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality."
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Ray Kurzweil
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68 Quotes by Ray Kurzweil
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Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.
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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…
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were…
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The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
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What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways…
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Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and…
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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