Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.
Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.