In an interview with Techland, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the existence of machines with human-level intelligence by 2029, offers advice to inventors, and discusses how you can prepare yourself for the very real possibility of human immortality in the not-too-distant future.
The dictionary defines a fetish as; An abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation.
This ran in Time, and I just decided it was germane to this blog. Just like that. It’s a piece about a book — no wait, hear me out — about late 18th century scientists, who were working at a time when the field was so wide open, anybody with a basement lab and some [...]
