Ray Kurzweil says health and medicine is an information technology and is therefore subject to the "law of accelerating returns" which implies a doubling of capability each year.
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Ray Kurzweil says health and medicine is an information technology and is therefore subject to the "law of accelerating returns" which implies a doubling of capability each year.
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Kurzweil believes solar energy could satisfy 100% our power needs.
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Kurzweil believes solar energy could satisfy 100% our power needs.
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Kurzweil sees the early 2020s as a "golden era" of 3D printing.
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Kurzweil sees the early 2020s as a "golden era" of 3D printing.
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Google is creating a system that will read every document on the web and every book for meaning. Kurzweil says this will provide a rich search and question answering experience based on the true meaning of natural language.
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Google is creating a system that will read every document on the web and every book for meaning. Kurzweil says this will provide a rich search and question answering experience based on the true meaning of natural language.
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Humans will be able to augment real reality so it appears someone is present, even if that person is hundreds of miles away, Kurzweil says.
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Humans will be able to augment real reality so it appears someone is present, even if that person is hundreds of miles away, Kurzweil says.
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