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Authors: Ray Kurzweil

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (73 page)

 
self-organization
 
self-replication
 
semiconductors
 
Sensorium
 
set theory
 
sex
 
virtual
 
Shahn, Ben
 
Shakespeare, William
 
Shaw, J. C.
 
SHRDLU
 
Simon, Herbert
 
simplification
 
Sims, Karl
 
Small, Jacquelyn
 
Smalley, Richard
 
Smolin, Lee
 
Society of Mind, The
(Minsky)
 
solar cells
 
solar systems
 
“Solitary at Seventeen, The” (Spacks)
 
soul
 
Soviet Union
 
spacecraft
 
Space War
 
Spacks, Barry
 
speech
 
speech recognition , Z99
see also
continuous speech recognition
 
speech-to-print devices
 
spirituality
 
God module and
 
stars
 
Star Trek
 
Star Wars
 
Steer, Clifford
 
stock market and investment decisions
 
strong force
 
Student
 
subjective experience
 
of time
see also
consciousness
 
supercomputers
 
swarms
 
Swinbume, Charles A.
 
Synaptics
 
synthesizers
 
music
 
 
teaching, teachers
 
technology
 
Clarke on
 
constructive use of
 
creation of
 
definition and derivation of word
 
economy and
 
evolution of
 
exponential growth of
 
historical developments
 
inevitability of
 
knowledge and
 
Luddites and, see Luddites
 
merger of technology-inventing species with
 
nanotechnology, see nanotechnology
 
stages of
 
stopping advance of
 
technology created by
 
transcendence of materials in
see also
arts; computers; language
 
telephone
 
translating
 
Teller, Astro
 
telomeres
 
thermodynamics, laws of
 
second
 
time
 
death and
 
directionality of
 
exponential nature of; see also exponential trends
 
intelligence and
 
Law of Time and Chaos
 
linear
 
speed of
 
subjective
 
and theory of relativity
 
time line
 
Today
 
Todd, Stephen
 
Toffler, Alvin
 
Tolkien, J.R.R.
 
tools
 
Torrey, E. Fuller
 
Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus
(Wittgenstein)
 
transistors
 
electron tunneling in
 
Moore’s Law and,
see
Moore’s Law
 
traveling salesperson problem
 
Trosch, Rick
 
tunneling
 
Turing, Alan
 
on acknowledging intelligence in machines
 
Enigma code and
 
Turing machine
 
Turing Test
 
musical
 
Twilight Zone, The
 
2000, Y2K and
 
2009
 
2019
 
2029
 
2099
 
 
United States
 
Universe:
 
birth of
 
consciousness and
 
development of
 
end of
 
expansion and contraction of
 
Law of Accelerating Returns and
 
life in
 
relevance of intelligence to
 
visits from other planets in
 
Ussachevsky, Vladimir
 
Utility Fog
 
 
venture capital
 
virtual environments, in games
 
virtual reality
 
feelings in
 
nanotechnology swarms in
 
neural implants and
 
sexual interaction in
 
tactile technologies in .7
 
Virtual Retina Display (VRD)
 
viruses
 
Visible Human Project
 
vision chip
 
visual arts
 
Vlastos, Gregory
 
Voice Xpress Plus
 
Von Neumann, John
 
 
Waltz, David
 
Wang, An
 
wars, warfare
 
Gulf War
 
in 2009
 
in 2019
see also
World War II
 
Washoe
 
Watson, James D.
 
Watson, Thomas J.
 
weak force
 
weapons
 
bioengineered
 
nanoweapons
 
weavers
 
Weizenbaum, Joseph
 
Whitehead, Alfred North
 
Wilde, Oscar
 
Wilson, James Q.
 
Winograd, Terry
 
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
 
Wonder, Stevie
 
word processing
 
voice-activated; see also speech recognition
 
World War II
 
Enigma code and
 
World Wide Web (WWW)
 
adult entertainment on
 
list of sites
 
in twenty-first century
see also
Internet
 
writing,
see
literary arts
 
 
Xerox
 
Palo Alto Research Center
 
 
Y2K (Year 2000 Problem)
 
Yeats, William Butler
 
Yim, Mark
 
Young, R. W
 
 
Zettl, Alex
 
Zimmerman, Phil
 

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