8 shocking predictions for life after 2020 from Google's genius futurist
Ray Kurzweil is the world's foremost futurist, authoring bestsellers like "The Age of Spiritual Machines" and "How to Create a Mind."He's so influential that Google hired him to lead its artificial...
View Article22 years ago, AT&T made scarily accurate predictions about modern technology
Have you ever been freaked out by TV commercials that correctly predicted the future more than 20 years in advance?You will.In 1993, AT&T ran a series of futuristic television ads, together known...
View Article9 crazy things that could happen after the singularity, when robots become...
Futurists say that our destiny will be shaped by the Singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Scholars don't agree on the details, but they say it will happen...
View ArticleEconomist says uploaded brains will take over all jobs within 100 years
We’ve all heard wild visions of the future. Hearing them from an economist, in a new book from Oxford University Press, makes them seem unusually real.Robin Hanson predicts in “The Age of Em” that...
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