Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years

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10 pointsakashtndn5 comments

"I often talk about the 6D’s of exponential thinking ..."

[turns off computer for the day]

> Ten terabytes of computing power (roughly the same as the human brain) will cost about $1,000.

What does "ten terabytes of computing power" mean?

My back of the envelope calculation is that it is equivalent to 5 GHz of wrongness

No, no it will be %100 correct when, in the future, you want to compare it to some then present day technology and claim he predicted it.

I feel that way about all of the things the article claims he predicted. I was reading him in the 1990s and he wasn't exactly precise in his predictions in my opinion.

I think he's a self promoter of the highest order.

Perhaps he meant teraflops, and there was a transcription error? Although I imagine prediction would have to be petaflops to be accurate.

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