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We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit (www.theguardian.com)

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (71 children)

Easy peasy:

Computers would beat humans at chess(happened in 1998)
Digital information explosion(The information on the internet rapidly becoming too much for the entire world to read)
Medicine becoming information technology(genomic, sequencing and crispr)
The inevitability of direct human computer interfacing (neuralink)
Life extension(cryonics/neuralink)
AI becoming a major industry(AI)
Computers built into eyeglasses(google glass)
Cpu processing speed explosion(Moore's law)
PCs would be able to answer questions wirelessly (search engines and the internet)
Exoskeletons render the disabled able (3d printable prosthetic limbs)

There are many, many more correct predictions by this guy

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (30 children)

Some of Kurzweil's predictions in 1999 about 2009:

“Unused computes on the Internet are harvested, creating … human brain hardware capacity.”
“The online chat rooms of the late 1990s have been replaced with virtual environments…with full visual realism.”
“Interactive brain-generated music … is another popular genre.”
“the underclass is politically neutralized through public assistance and the generally high level of affluence”
“Diagnosis almost always involves collaboration between a human physician and a … expert system.”
“Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle.”
“Despite occasional corrections, the ten years leading up to 2009 have seen continuous economic expansion”
“Cables are disappearing.”
“grammar checkers are now actually useful”
“Intelligent roads are in use, primarily for long-distance travel.”
“The majority of text is created using continuous speech recognition (CSR) software”
“Autonomous nanoengineered machines … have been demonstrated and include their own computational controls.”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (10 children)

“Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle.”

if you have budget for that, against an enemy that doesn't

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle" (if you don't count the people that the drones are blowing up)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, this can be made true by the simple expedient of redefining who counts as “human”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Something about redefining a person as a shield based on how much of their body absorbs the blast. Below that threshold they contain the property of the US military and are considered potential recycling recepticles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

yeah, and it's been like this since brits used freshly invented heavy machine guns in their colonial wars. machines killing machines is just what will cause army bean counters to burn at stake operators of these machines

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