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Re:Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change by ams6110 on Monday January 13, 2014 @10:04AM (#7050917)
It's fine to cherry-pick the predictions that he got right, but how many was he wrong about? I confess I don't follow Kurzweil, and don't put much stock in "futurists" generally, because a lot of the things that are "predicted" correctly seem like pretty safe bets to me.
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Re:Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change by Houshalter on Monday January 13, 2014 @01:22PM (#7052322)
http://lesswrong.com/lw/gbi/assessing_kurzweil_the_results/
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Re:Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change by pessimizer on Monday January 13, 2014 @11:40AM (#7051603)
I'm not sure that Kurzweil has ever gotten anything right that the majority of the industry didn't also get right. Every prediction of his that wasn't common was wrong. I welcome any citations that prove me wrong, though.
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Re:Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change by gshubert17 on Monday January 13, 2014 @01:40PM (#7052447)
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay
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