Dan S

“When a society strongly supports education, everyone is given a chance, inequality diminishes, and an informed and educated population leads to a better world.”
― Dogan Uygur, The Original Young Turk: Stories and Life Lessons from an American Dream Come True

“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems with limited resources, including limitations of time. The Singularity will be characterized by the rapid cycle of human intelligence—increasingly nonbiological—capable of comprehending and leveraging its own powers.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near

“Robert Freitas estimates that eliminating a specific list comprising 50 percent of medically preventable conditions would extend human life expectancy to over 150 years.39 By preventing 90 percent of medical problems, life expectancy grows to over five hundred years. At 99 percent, we’d be over one thousand years. We can expect that the full realization of the biotechnology and nanotechnology revolutions will enable us to eliminate virtually all medical causes of death. As we move toward a nonbiological existence, we will gain the means of “backing ourselves up” (storing the key patterns underlying our knowledge, skills, and personality), thereby eliminating most causes of death as we know it.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near

“The most complex capability of the human brain—what I would regard as its cutting edge—is our emotional intelligence. Sitting uneasily at the top of our brain’s complex and interconnected hierarchy is our ability to perceive and respond appropriately to emotion, to interact in social situations, to have a moral sense, to get the joke, and to respond emotionally to art and music, among other high-level functions.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near