We’re back! In this return episode we’re looking back at the prediction made for this year, 2019, twenty years ago in Ray Kurzweil’s 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines. This list was impressively specific and bold, and as we show not all of the predictions panned out. But is Kurzweil just a bit optimistic, maybe by ten years or so, or is he fundamentally wrong? We take a pretty unscientific look at how each of his predictions fared, then give our own gut assessments of how the future’s coming along.
Relevant Links
- The Age of Spiritual Machines on Amazon
- Three interesting Reddit threads: 2019 Predictions | 2019 Predictions from Singularity is Near | Kurzweil’s 2009 is Our 2019