Michael Bungay Stanier points to an article on Ray Kurzweil theory on the transformation of the human race through technological advances. “We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century – it will be more like 20,000 years of progress at today’s rate.”
“In practical terms,” Kurzweil added, “human aging and illness will be reversed; pollution will be stopped; world hunger and poverty will be solved. Nanotechnology will make it possible to create virtually any physical product using inexpensive information processes, and will ultimately turn even death into a soluble problem.”
Wouldn’t that be something? Or would it?
