Ray Kurzweil Reader 2001-2003

The Ray Kurzweil Reader Ray Kurzweil Reader -1 Acknowledgements 2 Table of Contents 3 Living Forever 1 Human Body Version 2.0 9 An Era of Abundance 9 Introducing Human Body Version 2.0 11 It’s All About Nanobots 11 Programmable Blood 14 Have a Heart, or Not 14 So What’s Left? 15 Redesigning the Human Brain 16 We Are Becoming Cyborgs 17 Experience Beamers 18 Human Cloning is the Least Interesting Application of Cloni 20 Why is cloning important? 21 Therapeutic cloning 21 Solving world hunger 22 Dialogue Between Ray Kurzweil, Eric Drexler, and Robert Bra 24 Information-theoretic content of long-term memory 27 False reanimation 28 Reverse-engineering the brain 29 The Alcor Conference on Extreme Life Extension 35 Arguments for a Green and Gray Future 41 The Future Will be Both Green AND Gray 41 Foreword to ‘Dark Ages II’ 45 How to Build a Brain 49 The Intelligent Universe 50 Why SETI will fail 58 Superintelligence in the universe 56 Reverse-engineering the brain 54 The Law of Accelerating Returns 52 How intelligence developed 51 Deep Fritz Draws: Are Humans Getting Smarter, or Are Compu 60 Are human chess players doomed? 63 Significant software gains 62 Deep Blue vs. Deep Fritz 61 The specialized-hardware advantage 60 A Wager on the Turing Test: Why I Think I Will Win 68 A Wager on the Turing Test: The Rules 64 The Procedure for the Turing Test Wager: The Turing Test Gen 64 I. Definitions. 65 II. The Procedure 65 Response to Mitchell Kapor’s “Why I Think I Will Win” 74 Will Machines Become Conscious 77 The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine 90 Will It Be Conscious? 94 Fantastic Voyage 93 Programming Intelligence 92 Why Returns Accelerate 92 How Life and Technology Evolve 91 My Question for the Edge: Who am I? What am I? 81 Live Forever—Uploading the Human Brain... Closer Than You Thin 84 How Can We Possibly Tell if it’s Conscious? 78 Visions of the Future 96 The Matrix Loses Its Way: Reflections on 'Matrix' and 'Matr 97 Matrix Reloaded 101 Glitches 100 A Dystopian, Luddite Perspective 99 Is Matrix-style VR feasible? 97 Reflections on Stephen Wolfram’s ‘A New Kind of Science’ 103 What Have We Learned a Year After NASDAQ Hit 5,000? 117 Remarks on Accepting the American Composers Orchestra Award 119 Foreword to The Eternal E-Customer 121 Response to Fortune Editor’s Invitational 123 The Singularity 126 KurzweilAI.net News of 2002 127 Cyborgs, clones, and the cosmos 132 Beyond Moore's law 131 Blurring reality 130 Have supercomputers already achieved human brain capacity? 129 Smart software and consumer robots 128 Singularity Math Trialogue 136 After the Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil 141 Accelerating Intelligence: Where Will Technology Lead Us? 152 Excerpts from Ray Kurzweil's remarks: 152 Max More and Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity 154 Dangerous Futures 175 One Half of An Argument 186 Are We Becoming an Endangered Species? Technology and Ethi 176 Ray Kurzweil: Questions and Answers 176 A Dialogue with the New York Times on the Technological Impl 182 Nanotechnology 196 Testimony of Ray Kurzweil on the Societal Implications of N 197 Development of Defensive Technologies and the Impact of Regu 224 The Relinquishment Issue 222 The Deeply Intertwined Promise and Peril of Nanotechnology a 220 The Economic Imperatives of the Law of Accelerating Returns 215 A Small Sample of Examples of True Nanotechnology 212 DNA Sequencing, Memory, Communications, the Internet, and Mi 208 Moore’s Law and Beyond 206 The Law of Accelerating Returns 204 The Intuitive Linear View versus the Historical Exponential 202 Models of Technology Trends 202 Written Testimony 201 Full Verbal Testimony: 198 Summary of Testimony: 197