"Kurzweil is no futuristic charlatan. He is the real deal, doing real thinking about the world of now and the world of tomorrow. His assertions about things to come are not to be taken lightly: The real-time phone translator that I describe is one of his new inventions; he is still working out the kinks."

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=344245&rl=1

By around 2050, "a student will no longer go to school to learn calculus; he or she will acquire the knowledge by digesting a pill that contains new genetic programming and nanotechnology that "puts" calculus into the student's consciousness while enhancing the computational power of his brain."

Translation

"Inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has predicted that by 2012, machine translation will be powerful enough to dominate the translation field. MIT's Technology Review also listed universal translation and interpretation as likely by 2014."

"Shortly before his death in 1970, Howard Scott, Technocracy's founder and long time Director-in-Chief, stated that 'Never in the history of human affairs has mankind been so unprepared for what it has to face.' The saddest part about this lack of preparation is that most people seem not to realize how unprepared they are, nor do they even care."

"Karl Marx believed that science and democracy were the right and left hands of what he called the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. He argued that advances in science helped delegitimize the rule of kings."

"Marxists argued that the advance of technology laid the groundwork not only for the creation of a new society, with different property relations, but also for the emergence of new human beings reconnected to nature and themselves."

Technocracy in Time (1932)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744852,00.html

Technocracy can probably be revised for prevalent robots.

Technocracy in Time

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753588-3,00.html

Robo-docs

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0904/100.html

Forbes

"We will achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for one cent around the year 2037."

Quote

"The advent of strong AI (exceeding human intelligence) is the most important transformation this century will see, and it will happen within 25 years, says Ray Kurzweil."

FAQs

http://communistrobot.com/faq.php

History

http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/history.html

PS3 may help cure cancer

http://www.ps3land.com/article-600.php

Kurzweil

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1

Technorealism

http://www.technorealism.org/

Link

http://www.technocracy.ca/

Equations

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:vK_9kNqJcvoJ:www.technocracy.org/%3Fp%3D/documents/articles/hubbert-growth+technocracy+equations&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Technocracy Book

http://technocracynow.org/Technocracy%20study%20guide.pdf

Technocracy Books

http://books.google.com/books?q=technocracy

http://www.towson.edu/~sallen/COURSES/311/ESSAYS/Technocrats.html

Technocracy FAQs

http://www.technocracy.ca/simp/Technocracy_FAQ_1.x.htm

Peak Oil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

Technocracy

http://web.telia.com/~u30014342/technocracy.html

CMU Publishes 'Build Your Own Robot' Guide

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2356664

Computers write news at Thomson

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bb3ac0f6-2e15-11db-93ad-0000779e2340.html

"First it was the typewriter, then the teleprinter. Now a US news service has found a way to replace human beings in the newsroom and is instead using computers to write some of its stories.

Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since March and is so pleased with the results that it plans to expand the practice."

Low Birth Rate in Korea

http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2003/000031.html

Japanese Baby Drought

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Japan+low+birth+rate&btnG=Search

Spinal surgery robot

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/0825metrobot.html

Technocracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_%28bureaucratic%29

Techno-utopianism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-utopianism

Economy

"Economically, a post-Singularity society would likely have more wealth than a pre-Singularity society (via increased knowledge of matter and energy manipulation to meet human needs). One possible post-Singularity future, therefore, is one in which per capita wealth increases dramatically while per capita employment decreases."

"Intel to Unveil 'Tulsa' Server Chip Aug. 29"

http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=24194

"Intel teams with universities on multicore software suite"

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2006/08/23/39526/Intel+teams+with+universities+on+multicore+software.htm

Speed

The Duke LAN is 1 Gbps.

Computer

My roommate said his brother built his computer.

Duke Sees Growth in iPod Use

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/12/ipodupdate.html

"IBM pushes quad-core ahead of Intel and AMD"

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33898

DARPA Grand Challenge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpa_grand_challenge

Toyota Robot In 2010

"In the initial stages, Toyota will develop a type of receptionist-robot that can offer drinks for customers while determining their preferences on cars. These robots will be placed in Toyota's 5,000 sales outlets across the nation."

"European Land Robot (ELROB) trials to have civil focus in 2007"

http://www.shephard.co.uk/UVOnline/Default.aspx?Action=-187126550&ID=6e09620b-2dce-4055-9ca9-a60d32758c63

"Korean Robot to Drive 2-Wheeled Scooter"

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200608/kt2006082417235910440.htm

"IBM grows storage product range"

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/08/23/217911/IBM+grows+storage+product+range.htm

"The N7600 and N7800 models offer Fibre Channel and SATA disk drive support and provide simultaneous NAS, iSCSI and 4Gbps FC SAN (FCP) attachment. The N series models are also scalable up to 504 terabytes of physical capacity."

NASA World Wind

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/features.html

"1 TB Data Storage Capacity Becomes a Reality"

http://www.sda-india.com/sda/news/psecom,id,10549,nodeid,4,_language,India.html

Korea to Unveil Programmable Robot in October

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200608/kt2006082117381710160.htm

"TAEJON _ D2E Robotics, a South Korean venture start-up, plans to market an advanced robot in October whose programs can be adjusted by users."