Hi all, I sent this question to Ray Kurzweil and I still hope that he will reply.
My question is regarding to a lecture that Ray gave in the year 2000 at the 2000 ACM SIGGRAPH conference in New Orleans:
http://www.kurzweila.....141.html?m=10
In that lecture Ray gave 2 very interesting comments -
1. "But, let's talk about, first, ten years from now, or eight or nine years from now. First of all, computers will disappear"
2. "By 2009, we'll have full immersion visual and auditory virtual reality"
Well, now we are almost in the year 2009, and it really doesn't looks realistic that in the next year, or even in the next 2-3 years, we will Not have a anymore desktop PC computers like the one that I'm using now, or that we will have a full immersion visual and auditory virtual reality. This things are still looks so far away although that Ray predicted that we will allready have them TODAY....
I'm really not attacking or criticize him, but I really want to understand that, becouse if he (as it looks in this examples) failed in predicting the so near future (He gave the lecture in the year 2000) then how should I refer to his predictions for 35 years from now?
Thanks!
Dan.