The Paradigms and Paradoxes of Intelligence: Building a Brain
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
How to build a brain, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
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The Singularity Is Near – Ray Kurzweil at Extro5 (Video)
July 30, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil presents his law of accelerating returns at EXTRO-5.… read more
The technology of universal intelligence
October 16, 2003 by Ray Kurzweil
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Levels of intelligence far greater than our own are going to evolve within this century. We will ultimately saturate all of the matter and energy in our area of the universe with our intelligence.… read more
The Web Within Us: Minds and Machines Become One.
February 21, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil’s vision for the 21st century and beyond includes reverse-engineering the human brain and non-biological intelligences.… read more
Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2001
January 21, 2002 by Ray Kurzweil, Amara D. Angelica
In its first year of operation, KurzweilAI.net has chronicled the notable news stories on accelerating intelligence. We’ve selected here the most important of those stories to document the key breakthroughs for 2001 in continued exponential growth of computation, communication, and other information-based technologies; comparable acceleration in efforts to reverse-engineer the human brain and other sources of the templates of intelligence; similar growth in our understanding of the information basis of biological processes; and the contributions of nanotechnology.… read more
Top KurzweilAI.net News of 2002
February 6, 2003 by Ray Kurzweil, Amara D. Angelica
In its second year of operation, 2002, KurzweilAI.net continued to chronicle the most notable news stories on accelerating intelligence. We offer here our overview of the dramatic progress that the past year has brought. Following that, we selected just over half of the 823 news stories posted in 2002 to document key breakthroughs in the continued exponential growth of increasingly diverse information-based technologies; deepening understanding of the information basis of biological processes; the early contributions of nanotechnology, and a multiplicity of related topics.… read more
Tribute to Michael Dertouzos (1936 — 2001)
August 30, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
In memory of Michael Dertouzos, 1936 — 2001.… read more
Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change
May 2, 2003 by Ray Kurzweil, Chris Meyer
We’re entering an age of acceleration. The models underlying society at every level, which are largely based on a linear model of change, are going to have to be redefined. Because of the explosive power of exponential growth, the 21st century will be equivalent to 20,000 years of progress at today’s rate of progress; organizations have to be able to redefine themselves at a faster and faster pace.… read more
We Are Becoming Cyborgs
March 15, 2002 by Ray Kurzweil
The union of human and machine is well on its way. Almost every part of the body can already be enhanced or replaced, even some of our brain functions. Subminiature drug delivery systems can now precisely target tumors or individual cells. Within two to three decades, our brains will have been “reverse-engineered”: nanobots will give us full-immersion virtual reality and direct brain connection with the Internet. Soon after, we will vastly expand our intellect as we merge our biological brains with non-biological intelligence.… read more
What Have We Learned a Year After NASDAQ Hit 5,000?
January 21, 2002 by Ray Kurzweil
The current recession reflects failure to develop realistic models of the pace at which new information-based technologies emerge and the overall acceleration of the flow of information. But in the longer-range view, recessions and recoveries reflect a relatively minor variability compared to the far more important trend of the underlying exponential growth of the economy.… read more