Wednesday, September 06, 2006

talk about the future

I'm excitedabout the idea festival in Louisville -
My all time favorite specualtive future dude-

Ray Kurzweil will speak at 4:30 PM on the rapidly accelerating advances in technology are becoming so powerful that "by the end of this century, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will be trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence". This, according to prize-winning author, scientist and innovator Ray Kurzweil, will allow humans to not only solve such vexing problems as pollution but overcome the limitations of biology including the aging process.

list of other speakers and info here

1 comment:

ernie said...

Wait, I don't understand is the robot god telling the frightened people that he killed hitler? Is that how we won WW2? If so my history class was way off.