Kurzweil Kudos Everywhere

Everyone is talking about client Ray Kurzweil's new book, The Singularity is Near. Whoah Ray, I can't keep up with the blog entries.

Today's New York Times: Will The Future be a Trillion Times Better?

Which Way Will Technology Take Us?, from my old hood's paper, the Boston Globe.

Check out their lead: (makes you want to read on, does it not?)
"We'll eat whatever we want but never get fat. Real estate will be virtual. Cheap, tiny computers will be smarter than we are. Energy demands will be met by nanoscale renewable technologies. We'll choose when, and if, we'll die. Many organs will be irrelevant, we'll be able to select from alternate personalities, and those among us who are ''software-based" will be a decade or two away from being ''able to expand [our] thinking without limit."

From WBUR......radio still plays a role :-)

And from my new hood's paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tom Abate, leading with this: "Inventor predicts the fusion of human and machines; author says let go of technological fixes for humans' sake."

Tag: Ray Kurzweil, Tag: exponentialgrowth, Tag: Singularity