Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era. Ray Kurzweil biologybodycell share on social
Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills. Ray Kurzweil defineinformationmemory Change image and share on social
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. Ray Kurzweil exponentiallyincreaseorder Change image and share on social
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 beingcreateextend Change image and share on social
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. Ray Kurzweil conflictcreateexpand share on social
What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make. Ray Kurzweil decisionimportantmake Change image and share on social
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. Ray Kurzweil consciousideaprogram Change image and share on social
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous. Ray Kurzweil artificialdangerousemotional Change image and share on social
I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago. Ray Kurzweil agobillionculture share on social
Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water. Ray Kurzweil amountconvertdirty Change image and share on social