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Posts tagged Ray Kurzweil
Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Now The Infinite Web
Oct 11th
An article by Scott Loganbill in the monkey_bites section of webmonkey reports that “As our economy sours more and more technologists are writing off Web 2.0 as dead.” Then he goes on to say, “We believe … the web is evolving. In fact, there’s no sign it will ever stop.” He also states that “Luckily for all of us, web technology is still in it’s infancy…”
I side with Scott on this. Whoever the “nervous technologists” are, they are wrong. Human beings are all about connections and relationships. The World Wide Web, that Tim Berners-Lee so un-selfishly gave us, is all about connections. The web is still More >
Singularity – Exponential Computing
Oct 4th
Do you hear it? That whooshing sound? Sure you do. Just listen:
It is there – the future rushing toward us ever faster!
I am fascinated by potential. In this case the potential of “computing” to increase from the equivalent of a mouse brain to that of a human brain in about 12 years from now, then that of many human brains, then all human brains, and past that we can only speculate.
The term “Singularity” was mentioned in the 1950s by John Von Neumann, then solidified by Vernor Vinge in a 1983 article in Omni magazine when he coined the term “technological More >
