X-Message-Number: 11227
Date: Sun Feb 07 04:33:24 1999  PST
Subject: Kurzweil Article - Spiritual Machines
From: Edgar W Swank <>

The age of spiritual machines

 It's not science fiction and it's coming soon




                                                            By Ray
Kurzweil
                                                            SPECIAL TO
MSNBC





               Feb. 5 -  A threshold event will take place early in
               the 21st century: the emergence of machines
               more intelligent than their creators. By 2019, a
               $1,000 computer will match the processing
               power of the human brain - about 20 million
               billion calculations per second. Organizing these
               resources - the "software" of intelligence -
               will take us to 2029, by which time your average
               personal computer will be equivalent to 1,000
               human brains

Remainder of article at

http://www.msnbc.com/news/233811.asp

The short article includes mention of uploading and multiple copies,
which have also been discussed here.

There are also pointers to

  E-mail Ray Kurzwei
  Chat with Ray Kurzweil Tuesday, Feb. 18th at 7:30 p.m. ET
    <http://msnbc.com/chat/default.asp>

Posted by:

Edgar W. Swank   <>
President - American Cryonics Society
http://www.jps.net/cryonics/

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