“The middle class is the backbone of this country. That’s not a political statement, that’s a reality. You are the people who get up every day and work hard, pay your taxes, and keep this country running. And yet, over the past few decades, the middle class has been squeezed and stretched to the breaking point.” – Joseph Biden, speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 2020View
“The bottom line is that computers are getting better and better at understanding the world around us, and speech recognition is one of the key ways that they will do this. Within a few decades, computers will be capable of doing everything that humans can do, but better.” ~ Ray Kurzweil 00View
“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” ~ Ray Kurzweil 00View
“By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.” ~ Ray KurzweilView
“When one culture meets another, and one of those cultures has a technological edge, they win. They win whether they come in peace or war.” – M.C. Hawkins in “The Last Astronaut” by David WellingtonView
“Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.” – Albert EinsteinView
