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Tag Archives: Ray Kurzweil
10 questions for Ray Kurzweil – [VIDEO]
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, The Global Economy
Tagged future, innovation, inventions, Ray Kurzweil, singularity
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Ray Kurzweil’s analysis of his own predictions is 146 pages long and uses the word “wrong” 10 times and the word “error” 2 times.
Ray Kurzweil’s PDF. Wikipedia on Ray Kurzweil’s predictions. Ray Kurzweil’s prediction track record is investigated by IEEE Spectrum.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and all the “Giving Pledge” billionaires, should rather do what Peter Thiel does –go investing their cash and/or (liquidated) fortune in futuristic projects. – [VIDEO]
This morning, I wrote that I disaprove Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge operation, because I rather favor billionaires investing in young startups lead by visionaries. Well, just after the publication of that post, I stumbled on the “Audacious … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations, Philanthropy, Research
Tagged Bill Gates, billionaires, capital, Chris Wood, Christine Peterson, enterprise, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, entreprises, extensive technologies, Foresight Institute, Fortune, funders, funding, giving, Giving Pledge, innovation, innovators, intensive technologies, inventions, investing, investments, Mike Kope, millionaires, Money, Neil Jacobstein, Patri Friedman, Peter Diamandis, Peter Thiel, Philanthropy, Ray Kurzweil, Santa Fe Institute, Seasteading Institute, SENS Foundation, Singularity University, startups, Thiel Foundation, Warren Buffett, wealth, X PRIZE Foundation
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Engineering magazine pulverizes Ray Kurzweil into fine particules.
Ray Kurzweil is full of it. His prediction track record is investigated by IEEE Spectrum.
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Forecasting (Science & Practice), Inventions & Innovations, Prediction Post-Mortem, Predictions - Forecasts, The Global Economy
Tagged digital economy, economy, Information Technology, predicting, prediction track record, Predictions, Ray Kurzweil, singularity, technology, US economy
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Ray Kurzweil (Robin Hanson’s guru) got his 1999-2009 predictions … all wrong.
- Michael Anissimov: Kurzweil’s Failed 2009 Predictions – More at the Next Big Future — (an excellent blog) UPDATE
Ray Kurzweil at Singularity Summit 2009 — The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology
Ray Kurzweil at Singularity Summit 2009 — The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology Ray Kurzweil at Singularity Summit 2009 — The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology from Michael Anissimov on … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Research, Science
Tagged Economics, Ray Kurzweil, Science, singularity, Singularity Summit 2009
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If legendary inventor Ray Kurzweil is right, the future will be a lot brighter –and weirder– than you think.
The smartest futurist on Earth – by Fortune magazine Being a hedge fund manager may seem an odd pursuit [*] for an expert in artificial intelligence, but to Kurzweil it’s perfectly natural. [*] It is.