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Quotes from The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge — Ray Kurzweil

born 1948 United States

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Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

We use one stage of technology to create the next stage, which is why technology accelerates, why it grows in power.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

The basic feasibility of communicating in both directions between electronic devices and biological neurons has already been demonstrated.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

We live in a three-dimensional world, and our brains are organized in three dimensions, so we might as well compute in three dimensions. ...Right now, chips, even though they're very dense, are flat.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

This interest in trends took on a life of its own, and I began to project some of them using what I call the Law of Accelerating Returns.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ray Kurzweil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.