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“Très peu nombreux seront les gens qui refuseront d'être amélioré par la technologie.”

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Raymond Kurzweil: Citations en anglais

“The Law of Accelerating Returns: As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up (that is, the time interval between salient events grows shorter as time passes). The Law… applies specifically to evolutionary processes.”

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“My spiritual education… took place at a Unitarian Church. The theme was "many paths to the truth." …even the inconsistencies were illuminating. It became apparent to me that the basic truths were profound enough to transcend apparent contradictions.”

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

“Sometimes, a deeper order—a better fit to a purpose—is achieved through simplification rather than further increases in complexity.”

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“This interest in trends took on a life of its own, and I began to project some of them using what I call the Law of Accelerating Returns.”

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"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“This… was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.”

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

“Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.”

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"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“The speed and density of computation have been doubling every three years (at the beginning of the twentieth century) to one year (at the end of the twentieth century), regardless of the type of hardware used. …Despite many decades of progress since the first calculating equipment was used in the 1890 census, it was not until the mid-1960s that this phenomenon was even noticed”

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although Alan Turing had an inkling of it in 1950
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor.”

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"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.”

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

“It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century.”

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

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