Tag: Ray Kurzweil

Title: Geodesic | Author: Clayton Shonkweiler | Source: Flickr | License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Blindness

“We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.” —Daniel Kahneman I just finished two incredible books about entirely different subjects with the same central theme: We are searching for meaning in the midst of massacres by blinding ourselves to our ultimate destruction. In Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan leverages his skills as a novelist to craft a story that Read More

(Left: Apes | Author: tubb | Source: Own work | License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) (Right: Crowd of commuters going to work in London)

Leading Change

In you have been wondering about what life might look like by the end of the 21st century, you may want to read a few of Ray Kurzweil’s books. Kurzweil, a pre-eminent futurist who graduated from MIT, formed multiple companies, and now works for Google as “Director of Engineering,” has shown that change is exploding exponentially, even though we cling to the belief that change is happening linearly.

Title: Artificial Intelligence | Author: andrew woodward | License: CC BY-ND 3.0

Speed of Evolution

“Everyone takes the limits of their own vision for the limits of the world.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

I recently attended a conference on digital acceleration and change leadership. The most shocking and provocative presentation stated that we will experience as much change in the next 20 years as we have experienced in the last 2,000 years.