A Talk from Ray Kurzweil
October 6th, 2008 | by Jose Miguel Cansado |The video shows a keynote of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil in February 2005. Despite being more than three years old, his insights remain as valid as ever.
Some of the points Mr. Kurzweil makes:
- Most new inventions fail only because of wrong timing. Not all enabling factors will be in place when needed.
- The price of Google stock in three years, or which wireless standard will win, can not be predicted.
- The cost of a MIPS or a MB of data transmitted wirelessly in 5 years can be quite accurately predicted.
- As the power of computing grows new applications will emerge to benefit from it.
- In 2020 there will be no computers as we know them today. They will be embedded into other systems, including our body.
- In 2020 computers will be able to record and reproduce emotions our nervous system.
In summary, when searching for the next breakthrough application always consider what future we are facing, what kind of computers we will have in the next 5-10 years, and more importantly what kind of problems will all this bring.
Focus on solving the problems of the future by harnessing the power of the computers of tomorrow.
