Kurzweil: The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity

Nerval's Lobster writes "Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil predicts the cloud will eventually do more than store our emails or feed us streaming movies on demand: it's going to help expand our brain capacity beyond its current limits. In a question-and-answer session following a speech to the DEMO technology conference in Santa Clara, California last week, Kurzweil described the human brain as impressive but limited in its capacity to hold information. 'By the time we're even 20, we've filled it up,' he said, adding that the only way to add information after that point is to 'repurpose our neocortex to learn something new.' (Computerworld has posted up the full video of the talk.) The solution to overcoming the brain's limitations, he added, involves 'basically expanding our brains into the cloud.'"

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Re:With apologies to Michio Kaku

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One day, very soon, a chip in your head will instantaneously connect with The Singularity, which will transmit back images into your corneal implants which will show you why this is so. In the meantime, take it as The Received Word from the future.

Oblig

[Cryacin]

Someone's got their head in the clouds.

Re:Oblig

[Vengeance]

No, no, it's true. I learned how to home-brew beer this year, but paid for it by forgetting how to drive.

Pedantic linear logic bs

[ElitistWhiner]

Game over. Computers won.

The future is Human augmented computing!

Simpsons did it

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

Every time I learn something new it pushes something out of my brain