2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal By Lev Grossman Thursday,
Feb. 10, 2011 That was Kurzweil's real secret, and back in 1965
nobody guessed it. Maybe not even him, not yet. 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. When that happens, humanity
our bodies, our minds, our civilization will be completely and
irreversibly transformed. He believes that this moment is not
only inevitable but imminent. According to his calculations, the
end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away.
(See the best inventions of 2010.) Computers are getting faster.
Everybody knows that. Also, computers are getting faster faster
that is, the rate at which they're getting faster is increasing.
So if computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast,
there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of
something comparable to human intelligence. Artificial
intelligence. All