Don't Let Innovation Widen The Gap Between Haves & Have-Nots

Ray Kurzweil, one of the most forward thinking scientists alive today, has a pretty good track record when it comes to tech predictions, including his 1990 prediction about the rise of the internet.

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In a 2015 piece for Singularity Hub, Peter Diamandis—a visionary in his own right and someone who knows Kurzweil well—outlined some of his favorite Kurzweil predictions for the next 25 years, including: “By the 2040s, non-biological intelligence will be a billion times more capable than biological intelligence (a.k.a. us). Nanotech foglets will be able to make food out of thin air and create any object in physical world at a whim.” And this as well: “By 2045, we will multiply our intelligence a billion fold by linking wirelessly from our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the c