From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 20:03:56 MST
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030217/scdfuture.html
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Ray Kurzweil
Inventor and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Within a quarter-century, we will have completed the reverse engineering of
the human brain and will understand its principles of operation. We can then
implement similar "biologically inspired" methods of information processing
using far more powerful computational technology. This will combine our
human strengths in pattern recognition and emotional and artistic
intelligence with the speed, capacity and knowledge sharing of machines.
The emergence in the early 21st century of this new form of intelligence,
one that can compete with and ultimately significantly exceed human
intelligence, will have profound implications for all aspects of human
endeavor, including the nature of work, learning, government, warfare, the
arts and our concept of ourselves. Our biological intelligence is for all
practical purposes fixed, whereas nonbiological intelligence is at least
doubling in power every year, so by 2053, it will dominate.
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