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By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

Ray Kurzweil
Technology, Thinking, Next Steps
Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.69, Penguin

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Ray Kurzweil
Unique, Technology, Humanity
"Evolution Is a Spiritual Process". Interview with Anthony Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Ray Kurzweil
Technology, Fire, Village

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

Ray Kurzweil
Technology, Profound, Magic
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In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

Ray Kurzweil
Technology, Phones, Self
"Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director Of Engineering, Wants To Bring The Dead Back To Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2012.

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

Ray Kurzweil
Running, Technology, Water
"The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book by John Brockman, 2003.

By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

Ray Kurzweil
Real, Technology, Personality

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Ray Kurzweil
Technology, Reality, Differences

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