Reading through this:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kurzweil" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kur...</a><p>I get the distinct sense that the person who made those predictions just watched far too many sci-fi movies. Nearly everything he predicted for 2020 in 1999 is something that already existed in some form, and his claim is that it will be smaller/faster/ubiquitous etc. The rest are just silly UI predictions (e.g. simulated persons, holograms, video phone calls etc.)