The future will be far more surprising than most observers realize: few have truly internalized the implications of the fact that the rate of change itself is accelerating. – Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns” It’s only one man talking, making projections about the future of technology and not coincidentally the future of the human race.  Yet many of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions have hit the mark.  In 2009, he analyzed 108 of them and found 89 entirely correct and another 13 “essentially” correct.  “Another 3 are partially correct, 2 look like they are about 10 years off, and 1, which was tongue … Continue reading From the Big Bang to the Internet—to the Singularity?