Ray Kurzweil : (4) " Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow. " - Ray Kurzweil " 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 " As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. " - Ray Kurzweil " I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It’s certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we’ll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn’t know anything about other religions 100 years ago. " - Ray Kurzweil