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1. MR. KURZWEIL: There is a movement against modifying biology.

2. Kurzweil likes 2045; Rattner, before 2050.

3. Dr Kurzweil is considered one of the most radical figures in the field of technological prediction.

4. Although Kurzweil is the public face of the singularity today, Vernor Vinge coined the term.

5. Kurzweil then demonstrated the computer, which he built himself — a desk-size affair with loudly clacking relays, hooked up to a typewriter.

6. By that time Kurzweil was thinking about the Singularity too.

7. The kind of intelligence Kurzweil is talking about, which is called strong AI or artificial general intelligence, doesn't exist yet.

8. According to Kurzweil, "the cost per watt of solar energy is coming down rapidly and the total amount of solar energy is growing exponentially.

9. MR. KURZWEIL: We have the power to solve those problems.

10. Kurzweil says that "By 2020 we'll routinely have pop ups in our visual field of view that give us background about the people and places that we're looking at."

11. But now, 46 years later, Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans.

12. MR. KURZWEIL: Emotion is not some sort of sideshow; there's intelligence and then there's emotion.

13. By 2045, Kurzweil says, we will have expanded the capacity for intelligence of our civilization — comprised by that stage of both software and people — one billion fold.

14. K-NFB is headed by CEO Ray Kurzweil[sentencedict.com], a 30-year innovator and pioneer in assistive technologies.

15. " the sceptical science writer John Horgan asked Kurzweil, who replied: "The key to the singularity is amplifying intelligence.

16. His father, with whom he was very close, died of heart disease at 58. Kurzweil inherited his father's genetic predisposition; he also developed Type 2 diabetes when he was 35.

17. "I think relinquishment is a bad idea for three reasons, " says Kurzweil.

18. "I went in very optimistic about the future of A.I. and thinking that Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil were far off in their predictions, " he said.

19. You may reject every specific article of the Singularitarian charter, but you should admire Kurzweil for taking the future seriously.

20. By definition, the future beyond the Singularity is not knowable by our linear, chemical, animal brains, but Kurzweil is teeming with theories about it.

21. On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret.

22. And what of the larger future of AI? Optimists, such as Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near, foresee an AI utopia in which human and machine intelligence combine.