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
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THE AGE of INTELLIGENT MACHINES | Knowledge Processing–From File Servers to Knowledge Servers
February 21, 2001
This chapter from The Age of Intelligent Machines (published in 1990) addresses the history and development of AI, and where it was headed, circa 1990.… read more
Words and Rules
February 21, 2001 by Steven Pinker
An important problem in AI in understanding how language works. In this paper, presented in his Colin Cherry Memorial Lecture on March 23, 1999 at Imperial College, London, Dr. Steven Pinker suggests that we use a combination of memory and grammatical rules to convey information.… read more
THE AGE of INTELLIGENT MACHINES | Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence
February 21, 2001
One of the visionaries in the field of AI shares his thoughts on AI, from the beginning of the last decade. From Ray Kurzweil’s revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990.… read more
Not Your Father’s Internet
February 21, 2001 by Bill Gates
Bill Gates envisions the next-generation Internet as a single, unified interface to information instantly available to you anywhere, any time.… read more
Global Cyberspace and Personal Memespace
February 21, 2001 by Bruce Damer
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Virtual worlds populated by avatars of real people interacting with each other, bots, agents, and exotic life forms: is this the future face of cyberspace?… read more
THE AGE of INTELLIGENT MACHINES | Can Computers Think?
February 21, 2001
The complexities of the mind mirror the challenges of Artificial Intelligence. This article discusses the nature of thought itself–can it be replicated in a machine? From Ray Kurzweil’s revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990.… read more
Letter from Hans Moravec
February 21, 2001 by Hans Moravec
In this March 25, 1999 Letter to New York Review of Books, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Hans Moravec counters John Searle’s “Chinese Room” argument, which attempts to show that machines cannot be conscious.… read more
Human Cloning is the Least of It
February 21, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
In this message posted to the WIRED Future List, Raymond Kurzweil asserts that cloning–replicating animals, organs, and cells–has profound implications for health and well-being of both humans and animals, including a possible solution for world hunger. He also sees no problem with human cloning.… read more
THE AGE of INTELLIGENT MACHINES | Can Machines Think?
February 21, 2001
The “inner light, that private way that it is with you that nobody else can share … is forever outside the bounds of computer science,” argues philosopher Dennett. From Ray Kurzweil’s revolutionary book The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990.… read more
Dear PC: R.I.P.
February 21, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil’s vision of the post-PC future includes nanobots and fully immersive virtual reality.… read more
The New Luddite Challenge
February 21, 2001 by Ted Kaczynski
An excerpt from the Unabomber Manifesto that briefly summarizes the author’s charge against technological progress.… read more
The Future
February 21, 2001 by David Dalrymple
The future, in the minds of many, is a very far-off place. However, you are in the future now, as perceived by the you that read the last sentence. You are constantly time-traveling at a constant speed. This however is irrelevant. It will take 10 years (back to superficial human time) until 2010. It will take 20 years until 2020. But now let us explore what is in those years and what their product might be. This article is done in a pseudo-fictional manner; it has a story to it, as do the Molly conversations in Editor-in-Chief Ray Kurzweil’s book The Age of Spiritual Machines. However, it also has a serious side to it… read on.… read more
Soul of a New Machine
February 21, 2001 by James Daly
Business 2.0 editor James Daly interviews Raymond Kurzweil on what happens when machines become conscious.… read more