KurzweilAI.net,
Nov. 27, 2002
Nov. 27, 2002 -- Ray Kurzweil "teleported" from Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts to Vienna, Austria today, remotely presenting a keynote speech at "AT21 Symposium and Gala 2002," sponsored by the Austrian Computer Society.
The speech marked the premiere use of the Teleportec system installed at KurzweilAI.net offices in Wellesley Hills, the first permanent installation of the Teleportec system by a speaker. The Teleportec system projects a realistic, moving 3-D image of a life-size person at a remote location, allowing the speaker to achieve two-way audience eye contact for real-time, two-way interaction.
In the illustrated speech, which received a standing ovation from the audience of some 1000 guests from industry, science, politics, and the press, Kurzweil presented examples of accelerating exponential growth in technology and other areas ("the law of accelerating returns") and a vision of what life will be like in 2009 and 2029.
"Communication bandwidths, the shrinking size of technology, our knowledge of the human brain, and human knowledge in general are all accelerating," said Kurzweil. "Once nonbiological intelligence matches the range and subtlety of human intelligence, it will necessarily soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge."
Also see: "Kurzweil teleports to nanotech conference"
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