Ray Kurzweil - Century Quotes

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The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.

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The speed and density of computation have been doubling every three years (at the beginning of the twentieth century) to one year (at the end of the twentieth century), regardless of the type of hardware used.... Despite many decades of progress since the first calculating equipment was used in the 1890 census, it was not until the mid-1960s that this phenomenon was even noticed (although Alan Turing had an inkling of it in 1950).

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The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.

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Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.

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It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century.

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