By 2029, Computers Will Have

When I Was A Student At Mit, We All Shared One Computer And It Took Up A Whole Building. The Computer In Your Cell Phone Today Is A Million Times Cheaper And A Thousand Times More Powerful. What Now Fits In Your Pocket 25 Years From Now Will Fit Into A Blood Cell And Will Again Be Millions Of Times More Cost Effective.

Evolution Is A Process Of Creating Patterns Of Increasing Order....i Believe That It's The Evolution Of Patterns That Constitutes The Ultimate Story Of Our World. Evolution Works Through Indirection: Each Stage Or Epoch Uses The Information-processing Methods Of The Previous Epoch To Create The Next.

I'm Working On Artificial Intelligence. Actually, Natural Language Understanding, Which Is To Get Computers To Understand The Meaning Of Documents.

My View Is That Consciousness, The Seat Of "personalness," Is The Ultimate Reality, And Is Also Scientifically Impenetrable. In Other Words, There Is No Scientific Test One Can Postulate That Would Definitively Prove Its Existence In Another Entity. We Assume That Other Biological Human Persons, At Least Those Who Are At Least Acting Conscious, Are Indeed Conscious. But This Too Is An Assumption, And This Shared Human Consensus Breaks Down When We Go Beyond Human Experience (e.g., The Debate On Animal Consciousness, And By Extension Animal Rights).

The Telephone Is Virtual Reality In That You Can Meet With Someone As If You Are Together, At Least For The Auditory Sense.