Kurzweil fragment
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So let me just end with a couple of scenarios
By 2010 computers will disappear
they'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment
images will be written directly to our retina
providing full-immersion virtual reality
augmented real reality
We'll be interacting with virtual personalities
But if we go to 2029 we really have the full maturity of these trends
and you have to appreciate how many turns of the screw
in terms of generations of technology which are getting faster and faster we'll have at that point
we will have two to the 25th power
greater price performance, capacity and bandwith of these technologies
which is pretty phenomenal
It'll be millions of times more powerful than it is today
We'll have completed the reverse engineering of the human brain
one thousand dollars of computing will be more powerful
than the human brain in terms of basic raw capacity
computers will combine
the subtle pan-recognition powers
of human intelligence with ways in which machines are already superior
in terms of doing analytic thinking
remembering billions of facts accurately
machines can share their knowledge very quickly
But it's not just an alien invasion of intelligent machines
we are going to merge with our technology
The nano-bots I mentioned
will first be used for medical and health applications
cleaning up the environment, providing fuel- powerful fuel cells
and widely distributed decentralized solar panels, and so on in the environment
But they'll also go inside our brain
interact with our biological neurons
We've demostrated the key principles of being able to do this.
So, for example
full virtual reality from within the nervous system
the nano-bots shut down the signals coming from your real senses
replaces them with the signals that your brain would be receiving
if you were in the virtual environment
And then it'll feel like your in that virtual environment
you can go there with other people, have any kind of experience
with anyone involving all of the senses
"Experience beamers", I call them, will put their whole flow of sensory experiences
and the neurological correlates of their emotions out on the internet
You can plug in and experience what it's like to be someone else
But most importantly,
it'll be a tremendous expansion
of human intelligence through this direct merger with our technology.