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- In his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil proposed "The Law of Accelerating Returns", according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including but not limited to the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially.
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Kurzweil's ability to predict technological advances, he suggests, comes from an appreciation of the 'law of accelerating returns' — the tendency for advances to feed on themselves, increasing...
- Mark Buchanan
- 2008
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
The Law of Accelerating Returns* Ray Kurzweil KurzweilALnet Summary. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense "intuitive linear" view. So we won'texperience 100 years of progress in the 21st century - it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate).
- Ray Kurzweil
- 2004
In his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil proposed "The Law of Accelerating Returns", according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including but not limited to the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially.
- Gerald S. Hawkins
- 1983
Mar 7, 2001 · Summary. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21 st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate).
Kurzweil predicted that, sometime in the early 21st century, hand-held devices would enable blind people to read. Sure enough, devices that accurately read printed text aloud have come onto the...
