Did he watch one too many Matrix movies or is he onto something?
Futurists are people who study and predict the future on the basis of current trends, and should not be confused with other famous ‘predictors of the future’ like Nostradamus or your local psychic who told you that a ‘dark man will unlock your inner beauty’.
Kurzweil has a reasonable track record of making predictions about technology, correctly predicting in 1990 that a computer would beat human world chess champions by the year 2000, the rise of portable computers and smartphones, the shift to more wireless technology, and foreseeing the explosion of the Internet before that was obvious to everyone.
So, did he watch one too many Matrix movies or is he onto something? As with everything these days, AI seems to be involved.
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