Thursday, October 13, 2005

USATODAY.com - Progress at light speed: Ray Kurzweil: "Progress at light speed: Ray Kurzweil
By Gregory M. Lamb, The Christian Science Monitor
The future isn't just evolving, says Ray Kurzweil — it's exploding. We just can't quite see the pyrotechnics yet. That's because change is happening at an exponential rate.

'Exponential growth looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly you get this explosion at the end,' says Mr. Kurzweil, a prominent inventor, mathematician, and entrepreneur. Evolution has taken millions of years to bring humanity to this point, he says. With the help of technology, the pace of change is about to accelerate at an astonishing rate.

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