A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving. |
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. |
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. |
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses. |
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. |
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. |
Exponential growth looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly you get this explosion at the end, |
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies, and easily discount / dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies. |
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. |
I really do believe it is feasible to slow down the aging process, ... We call that a bridge to a bridge to a bridge -- to the full flowering of the biotechnology revolution. |
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. |
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch. |
One could run these automata for trillions or even trillions of trillions of iterations, and the image would remain at the same limited level of complexity. They do not evolve into, say, insects, or humans, or Chopin preludes. |
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. |
The Singularity is Near, |