So for those of you who don't know. Ray Kurzweil, is a man who predicts that at about 2050 computers will be smart enough to change the course of humanity.
Yes I know it sounds sci-fi ish but it does make a lot of sense. I'm only in my 20's right now so I don't have much experience with history first hand. Because of my age I'm fairly limited with experience. But I can say that technology has changed quite a bit since I was born. As far back as I can remember, before cell phones were invented people used pagers or "beepers" as we called them locally. I'm still not exactly sure how they work but they were the top of technology a long time ago. Then cell phones became popular. Everyone had em and they were pretty big and the screens were all in black and white. Today, touch screen phones, with built in high resolution camera/video recorders, with various other technology such as built in voice recognition software that works pretty well, is a huge leap in technology.
My father had a computer at his office, it was running on windows 1998. I checked the technical specifications on it. The processor used in the computer was LESS powerful then the new snapdragon processor in the latest droid phone.
In 12 years, a powerful computer is now sold for the same price yet now it's small enough to fit in a phone.
Some people don't believe computers will someday be smarter then humans. In 2020 who knows how fast and powerful computers will be. But I would bet a large some of money that it would be able to fit in our cell phones and our technology will be fantastically cool by then. I would even venture to believe that 3-D technology will be in every household.
A technological singularity will come. Computers will be smarter then humans. It's just a matter of time.
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