Ray Kurzweil's Presentation on the History and Future of Technology
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The document discusses human history and technological progress over time. It shows a graph depicting the rapid increase in population and key innovations throughout history, from the agricultural revolution to modern technologies like computers and the internet. The text discusses emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology and how everything is becoming software-based. It promotes the idea that the rate of progress in the 21st century will be exponentially faster than in the past, bringing the equivalent of 20,000 years of change in just a single century. The document is from Singularity University, which teaches about exponentially growing technologies.
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- 24. “we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century. it will be more like 20,000 years.” *Ray Kurzwe
- 27. “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” -Steven Pressfield