Ray Kurzweil
Field of reference: Technology, Sociology
Description: "Change itself is accelerating"
“Our forebears expected the future to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past. Although exponential trends did exist a thousand years ago, they were at that very early stage where an exponential trend is so flat that it looks like no trend at all. So their lack of expectations was largely fulfilled. Today, in accordance with the common wisdom, everyone expects continuous technological progress and the social repercussions that follow. But 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."
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Ray Kurzweil
Field of reference: Technology
Description: Technology builds on itself exponentially
“With the advent of a technology-creating species, the exponential pace became too fast for evolution through DNA-guided protein synthesis and moved on to human-created technology. Technology goes beyond mere tool making; it is a process of creating ever more powerful technology using the tools from the previous round of innovation. In this way, human technology is distinguished from the tool making of other species. There is a record of each stage of technology, and each new stage of technology builds on the order of the previous stage.""...The first technological steps-sharp edges, fire, the wheel–took tens of thousands of years. For people living in this era, there was little noticeable technological change in even a thousand years. By 1000 A.D., progress was much faster and a paradigm shift required only a century or two. In the nineteenth century, we saw more technological change than in the nine centuries preceding it. Then in the first twenty years of the twentieth century, we saw more advancement than in all of the nineteenth century. Now, paradigm shifts occur in only a few years time. The World Wide Web did not exist in anything like its present form just a few years ago; it didn’t exist at all a decade ago."
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M.P. Cowen
Field of reference: Economics, History
Description: Development as a natural movement
“ The 18th century Scottish writers, it is supposed, formulated the first theory of “development” by postulating a series of stages of human activity commencing with hunting and fishing, progressing through pastoralism and settled agriculture, and culminating with commerce and manufacture, As one commentator has suggested, “The four stages, at any rate at the outset of its career, usually took the form of a theory of development embodying the idea of some “natural” or “normal” movement through a succession of different modes of subsistence.”
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Dr. Cliff Pickover
Field of reference: History
Description: Picture/graph of human technological development/Time
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Dr. Nayef Al-Rodhan
Field of reference: Neuroscience, Sociology, Psychology
Description: Human natures ego is the drive behind self-interest actions,and in a proper environment humans are capable of using this drive in a more ethical moral direction
" Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities. In my view, altruism is in the final analysis driven by survival motives that are emotionally based. In this sense, my approach supports Hume’s thesis. Recent neuroscientific findings confirm that we are primarily driven by our emotions rather than reason. Yet, since the human psyche and human behaviour are also the product of the environment, under the right circumstances and with deliberate effort, we are capable of acting morally, beyond the margins of what our genetic coding has primed us for."
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