Fun presentation. If you haven’t already, you should read Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near” (http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0670033847). He takes this view of exponential development to the extreme, eg we will all have merged with ‘the machine’ in about 40 years or so…
Fun presentation. If you haven’t already, you should read Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near” (http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0670033847). He takes this view of exponential development to the extreme, eg we will all have merged with ‘the machine’ in about 40 years or so…
I think the video version of it is even more interesting :
http://ulik.typepad.com/leafar/2007/04/shit_happens_a_.html
And I agree with Max, Kurzweil’s book is brilliant !