Monday, 30 September 2002

Where We Go From Here: Jon Udell, Dec. 1999 Ray Kurzweil -- isn't so sure. In a radical book titled The Age of the Spiritual Machines, published by Viking, Kurzweil says computational substrates to which we can "port" human minds will exist within a matter of decades. Mind transplants are routine science-fiction fare, but Kurzweil is deadly serious when he says that if Moore's law holds until 2020, it will produce a platform on which we can run the application we call consciousness. [Source: Byte.com] 10:06:04 PM

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