KURZWEIL'S PREDICTIONS FOR YEAR 2009
future predictions given by Kurzweil back in 1999 for year 2009: * Individuals primarily use portable computers * Portable computers have dramatically become lighter and thinner * Personal computers are available in a wide range of sizes and shapes, and are commonly embedded in clothing and jewelry, like wrist watches, rings, earrings and other body ornaments * Computers with a high-resolution visual interface range from rings and pins and credit cards up to the size of a thin book. People typically have at least a dozen computers on and around their bodies, which are networked, using body LANS (local area networks) * These computers monitor body functions, provide automated identity to conduct financial transactions and allow entry into secure areas. They also provide directions for navigation, and a variety of other services. * Most portable computers do not have keyboards * Rotating memories such as Hard Drives, CD roms, and DVDs are on their way out. * Most users have servers on their homes and offices where they keep large stores of digital objects, including, among other things, virtual reality environments, although these are still on an early stage * Cables are disappearing * The majority of texts is created using continuous speech recognition, or CSR (dictation software). CSRs are very accurate, far more than the human transcriptionists, who were used up until a few years ago * Books, magazines, and newspapers are now routinely read on displays that are the size of small books * Computer displays built into eyeglasses are also used. These specialized glasses allow the users to see the normal environment while creating a virtual image that appears to hover in front of the viewer * Computers routinely include moving picture image cameras and are able to reliably identify their owners from their faces * Three dimensional chips are commonly used * Students from all ages have a portable computer, very thin and soft, weighting less than 1 pound. They interact with their computers primarily by voice and by pointing with a device that looks like a pencil. Keybords still exist but most textual language is created by speaking. * Intelligent courseware has emerged as a common means of learning, recent controversial studies have shown that students can learn basic skills such as reading and math just as readily with interactive learning software as with human teachers. * Schools are increasingly relying on software approaches. Many children learn to read on their own using personal computers before entering grade school. * Persons with disabilities are rapidly overcoming their handicaps through intelligent technology * Students with reading disabilities routinely use print to speech reading systems * Print to speech reading machines for the blind are now very small, inexpensive, palm-size devices that can read books. * Useful navigation systems have finally been developed to assist blind people in moving and avoiding obstacles. Those systems use GPS technology. The blind person communicates with his navigation system by voice. * Deaf persons commonly use portable speech-to-text listening machines which display a real time transcription of what people are saying. The deaf user has the choice of either reading the transcribed speech as displayed text or watching an animated person gesturing in sign language. * Listening machines cal also translate what is being said into another language in real-time, so they are commonly used by hearing people as well. * There is a growing perception that the primary disabilities of blindness, deafness, and physical impairment do not necessarily. Disabled persons routinely describe their disabilities as mere inconveniences. * In communications, translate telephone technology is commonly used. This allow you to speak in English, while your Japanese friend hears you in Japanese, and vice-versa. * Telephones are primarily wireless and include high resolution moving images. * Heptic technologies are emerging. They allow people to touch and feel objects and other persons at a distance. These force-feedback devices are wildly used in games and in training simulation systems. Interactive games routinely include all encompassing all visual and auditory environments. * The 1999 chat rooms have been replaced with virtual environments. * At least half of all transactions are conducted online * Intelligent routes are in use, primarily for long distance travel. Once your car’s computer’s guiding system locks on to the control sensors on one of these highways, you can sit back, and relax. * There is a growing neo-luditte movement.

I think they are 80% correct. What you think?

maybe you`ll realise nobody likes u this year. And that you need to mend your evil ways. Also that Alex products arent working for you and that you need to find something new AND WHY ARE YOU BACK! YOUR KILLING POOR LOBSANG! Please stop hurting him. Notice nobody misses you when your gone! AWAY with you. We must save Lobsangs health! :lol:

Yes I am sick right now just seeing Franco's name. And I also used to have a drug problem that I beat. I just hope Franco does not drive me back to drugs and drinking! That would kill me.

NOOOOOOOO! Franco just do everyone a favor and AWAY WITH U! Poor innocent Lobsang!

Did that guy predict anything important? I have other things on my plate right now. What did you do to piss everyone off Frank?

They cannot beat the savior of mankind.

Hey HEY - franks back. ! Dont underestimate FRANCO - HE IS SUPERHUMANSOY ! :lol:

HES A JOKE! He gets uglier and older and comes on here saying he looks 13 with a full head of hair and reconstructed jaw. NO its just his fat over lapped his jaw so in his mind it dissapeared :)

Franco at least, has a sympathetic feeling to me, because of his naive intelligence, you Rayanna talk like a typical horny guy, and Lobsang is a depressive child molester , Sacjb masturbates too much.

lmao I sure doooooooo dont I? LMAO! but no Franco is pure evil and he has a evil heart. I have pix and every conversation ive ever had with him saved. He is completely evil.

Frank is a racist, isn't he? I could sense that from him.

He's surely evil for saying that! Hey Frank! Time to check your medication, dude and lay off the Gorgeouspil for a spell.

it's all false, clint what yoiu guys think of kurzweil's predictions? he also predicts AI in year 2020 and nanobots in our brain in year 2030, supercyborgs in year 2040 and informatic paradise-virtual world omnipotent in year 2046