Quote of the Week: Courtesy of Ray Kurzweil

From his book, The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil on brains, computers, and the future of civilization:

"Our human intelligence is based on computational processes that we are learning to understand. We will ultimately multiply our intellectual powers by applying and extending the methods of human intelligence using the vastly greater capacity of nonbiological computation. So to consider the ultimate limits of computation is really to ask: what is the destiny of our civilization?"

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