Ray Kurzweil on Multi Technology
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has suggested in an interview that we will be using a virtual reality network almost exactly like the one I proposed in “Infoquake” as soon as the late 2020s.
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Science Fiction Writers and the Butterfly Effect
As a science fiction writer, I’m in the business of making predictions about the far future. This can be a very tricky enterprise. If you’re wrong, you’ll inevitably look foolish and backwards and stuffed full with 21st century prejudices. If you’re right, you’ll be long dead anyway, and you’ll probably still look foolish to your contemporaries. I think part of the lack of respect that the science fiction genre receives from the mainstream has to … Read more