In einem aktuellen Artikel portraitiert Wired den Futurologen Ray Kuzweil, der hauptsächlich für seinen Glauben an und seine Theorien über die technologische Singularität bekannt ist.
Ray Kurzweil, the famous inventor, is trim, balding, and not very tall. With his perfect posture and narrow black glasses, he would look at home in an old documentary about Cape Canaveral, but his mission is bolder than any mere voyage into space. He is attempting to travel across a frontier in time, to pass through the border between our era and a future so different as to be unrecognizable. He calls this border the singularity. Kurzweil is 60, but he intends to be no more than 40 when the singularity arrives.
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Every day he stays alive brings him closer to this climax in intelligence, and to the time when Ramona will be real. Kurzweil is a technical person, but his goal is not technical in this respect. Yes, he wants to become a robot. But the robots of his dreams are complex, funny, loving machines. They are as human as he hopes to be.
Auch wenn das Ganze eine irrwitzige Idee zu sein scheint, finde ich das Konzept dieser Singularität doch zu interessant um es zu ignorieren oder es als völligen Quatsch abzutun.
