Ray Kurzweil does not tire of repeating that we live in the most amazing and interesting time in the history of mankind. Do you want to know what he predicts for the next 83 years?
Do you believe in predictions? No? And would you believe in the prediction of a futurist if you find out that he wrote seven books, five of which have already been listed as bestsellers, is the owner of 20 honorary doctoral degrees, and three American presidents personally presented him with insignia?
Well, it's time to get acquainted with Ray Kurzweil, the technical director of Google, the inventor of the first flatbed scanner, a reading machine for the blind and many, many other useful pieces that have already firmly established themselves in our reality. Many years ago Bill Gates said that Kurzweil is the best of all he knows in predicting the future of artificial intelligence. But in his assumptions Ray Kurzweil was not mistaken even in the dates! As he predicted, in 1997 the computer beat Garry Kasparov in chess, PCs could answer questions, having wireless access to information on the Internet, ezoskeletons allowed disabled people to walk, computer displays are already embedded in glasses, and language "virtual" transfers are carried out in real time with a single keystroke. And, for a second, all this futurologist "guessed" almost 25 years ago!
2019 - it's time to say goodbye forever with wires and cables for all devices.
2020 - the computing power of the PC will be equal to the human brain.
2021 - only 15% of the Earth will remain without wireless access to the Internet.
2022 - European and American legislatures will make laws at full speed to adjust relations between robots and people.
2024 - you will not be allowed to drive, if your car will be without computer intelligence.
2025 - the market of gadget-implants will become a simple routine.
2026 - we will learn how to effectively combat the aging processes and will continue to extend our lives through nanorobots and other technologies.
2027 - a new morning you will not start with a set of commands on the coffee machine, but with a personal robot.
2028 - solar energy (incidentally, the most common and cheap) will fully satisfy the entire energy demand of man.
2029 - work on computer simulation of the human brain will bring long-awaited fruits - the PC will be able to pass the Turing test and prove the presence of reason.
2030 - the starry hour of nanotechnology and as a consequence - cheaper production of all goods.
2031 - any human body can be printed in the nearest hospital on a 3D printer.
2032 - nanorobots will begin to restore order even in human cells.
2033 - your fellow travelers on the road will most often be self-governing cars.
2034 - well, everything, your virtual boyfriend can be created on personal preferences, projecting an image on the retina of the eye.
2035 - the power of space technology will be enough to fully protect the Earth from collision with asteroids.
2036 - cells for the treatment of diseases will probably simply be programmed.
2037 - the undisclosed secrets of the human brain will remain less and less.
2038 - the long-awaited appearance of robotic people.
2040 - gadgets with search engines will be implanted in the human body. The search itself will be carried out with the help of language and thoughts, but the result will be displayed on the screen of glasses or lenses.
2041 - 500 million times the maximum bandwidth of the Internet.
2042 - thoughts of immortality will no longer be from the realm of fantasy - nanorobots will learn to supplement the immune system and "clean up" the disease.
2043 - thanks to the replacement of internal organs with cybernetic devices, a person will be able to change the shape of his body.
2044 - Oh, horror, non-biological intelligence will be billions of times smarter than our biological one.
2045 - the beginning of the end or the Earth = one big computer?
2099 - technological singularity "will capture" the entire universe!