At O’Reilly Media’s fourth annual Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly held a conversation with Ray Kurzweil.

O’Reilly said that technology will soon create a new generation of e-books that will talk back to us in ways we can’t conceive today. “The analytics we’ll be able to harvest will change everything,” O’Reilly said. “E-books will send information back to publishers about the ways people are reading. It will change how we edit and produce books.

Kurzweil said the speed of technological innovation is speeding up exponentially and computers will be able to recreate the brain’s function and devices will be placed inside the human body-indeed inside our brains–that will make us smarter. Over the next 10 years, Kurzweil said, “the web will take over everything, including our minds.”