Good thoughts, below just the intro, much more at the link:
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future By Sveta McShane and Jason Dorrier -Apr 19, 2016
This is the last in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity Is Near. Be sure to read the other articles:
Will the End of Moore’s Law Halt Computing’s Exponential Rise?
Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is
How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future
Over the last several decades, the digital revolution has changed nearly every aspect of our lives.
The pace of progress in computers has been accelerating, and today, computers and networks are in nearly every industry and home across the world. Many observers first noticed this acceleration with the advent of modern microchips, but as Ray Kurzweil wrote in his book The Singularity Is Near, we can find a number of eerily similar trends in other areas too.
According to Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns, technological progress is moving ahead at an exponential rate, especially in information technologies.
This means today’s best tools will help us build even better tools tomorrow, fueling this acceleration.
But our brains tend to anticipate the future linearly instead of exponentially. So, the coming years will bring more powerful technologies sooner than we imagine. As the pace continues to accelerate, what surprising and powerful changes are in store? This post will explore three technological areas Kurzweil believes are poised to change our world the most this century.
[Read more about exponential progress in computing, Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns, and how to think exponentially and better predict the future.]
Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics ...... (Read the whole thing and articles linked to) .......
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