This prediction has attracted debate and criticism from the AI research community, and some of its more notable members, such as Kevin Warwick, Bill Joy, Ken MacLeod, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, and Roger Penrose, have voiced their opinions on whether or not this future is likely.

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

Kurzweil has received many awards and honors, including:

* Kurzweil has received eighteen honorary doctorates.

Kurzweil refers to this concept as the " Law of Accelerating Returns ", and has asserted that this is supported by a number of metrics.

Kurzweil has forecast a number of specific technological advances with specific dates in his books, stating that before 2050 medical advances will allow people to radically extend their lifespans while preserving quality of life through the use of nanobots,

" The concept has also been popularized by futurists, such as Ray Kurzweil.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil has speculated that by the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of the 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, defines a Singularitarian as someone " who understands the Singularity and who has reflected on its implications for his or her own life ", and estimates the Singularity will occur around 2045.

It has been speculated by futurologist Ray Kurzweil the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

After mastering the methods of technology and biology, Kurzweil predicts that human / machine civilization will expand its frontiers into the universe, gradually ( or perhaps explosively ) consuming the contents of the cosmos until the universe reaches a ' saturated ' state where all inanimate matter has been converted to substrates for computation and intelligence, and a truly universal super-intelligence takes form.

* People spend most of their time in full-immersion virtual reality ( Kurzweil has cited The Matrix as a good example of what the advanced virtual worlds will be like, without the dystopian twist ).

As futurist and computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil has noted, " There are physical limits to computation, but they're not very limiting.

Once the matter of the solar system has been mostly converted to computer substrate, forming a Matrioshka brain, according to Kurzweil, by about the beginning of the 22nd century, life will then expand outward into interstellar space in all directions, deploying miniature starships ( to save on expensive anti matter starship fuel ) that will be Von Neumann probes crewed by swarms of nanobots, to colonize the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

In Spring 2008, Kurzweil launched the PC3 Performance Controller, which has next generation VAST synthesis technology derived from the K2xxx series but vastly improved with new features, new algorithms, virtual analog synthesis, sequencer, powerful effects processor based on Kurzweil KSP8 unit, and overall better sounds than previous Kurzweil synths.

Currently, Young Chang has more than 2000 full-time workers, designing and building its upright and grand pianos, and also the electronic Kurzweil Music Systems.

Kurzweil has been awarded the highest possible scientific prize of the Czech Republic, the " Czech Mind " of the year 2006, as an acknowledgement of his life achievements.

Ray Kurzweil, a noted futurist, has written about this level of technology.

This idea has been popularised by Ray Kurzweil as strong AI ( taken to mean a machine as intelligent as a human being ).

He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000.

A number of scientists, inventors, and science fiction writers have also credited Tom Swift with inspiring them, including Ray Kurzweil, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov.

In mathematics, the Henstock – Kurzweil integral ( also known as the ( narrow ) Denjoy integral ( pronounced ), Luzin integral or Perron integral, not to be confused with the more general wide Denjoy integral ) is one of a number of definitions of the integral of a function.

In 2005, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that over a 40 year period between 2005 and 2045, most human beings will gradually evolve into a super race of immortal androids called Transhumans with super-bodies and super-brains ( the super brains of the humanoid androids will have greater capacity not only in and of themselves, but also because they will be able to function more efficiently by storing some of their mental capacity in the cloud of the future greatly expanded Internet through brain-computer interfacing ) by gradually replacing their biological cells with new cells having a more efficient cellular energy processing system that will be based on nanobots manufactured using nanotechnology.

Kurzweil also claims it increases energy and leads to a generally happier life.

* the narrow Denjoy integral, or just Denjoy integral, also known as Henstock – Kurzweil integral,

* Kurzweil also claims that the phrase " new Dark Age " is misleading, since Huebner has not ruled out such a technologically-stalled " Dark Age " being also a " New Renaissance " in which creativity flourishes as people move their skills to other areas of human culture such as the arts and cultural creativity.

In 1965 Aptheker married her fellow student Jack Kurzweil, who was also a Communist activist.

Others, such as futurist Ray Kurzweil, who draws heavily on it in his own publications, have embraced the book.

Already visible are the Byzantine arguments resurrected today about likeness, some arguing restraint and moratoria, some prophesizing an outphasing of humans by their own creations ( Ray Kurzweil inter alia ).

In 1999, Kurzweil created a hedge fund called " FatKat " ( Financial Accelerating Transactions from Kurzweil Adaptive Technologies ), which began trading in 2006.

Kurzweil made a movie called The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About the Future in 2010 based, in part, on his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near.

In addition to his movie, an independent, feature-length documentary was made about Kurzweil, his life, and his ideas called Transcendent Man.

In 2010, an independent documentary film called Plug & Pray premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival, in which Kurzweil and one of his major critics, the late Joseph Weizenbaum, argue about the benefits of eternal life.

Next, Kurzweil published a book on nutrition in 1993 called The 10 % Solution for a Healthy Life.

Raymond Kurzweil at the Singularity Summit at Stanford in 2006

In his book The Singularity is Near, Kurzweil makes a detailed critique of Smalley's views on nanotechnology.

This Infinity Point is an early version of the " Singularity " later made popular by Ray Kurzweil.

*“ Max More and Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity ”

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who predicts the Singularity will occur in 2045, greatly contributed to popularizing Singularitarianism with his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

In the introduction to his book, Goertzel says that estimates of the time needed before a truly flexible AGI is built vary from 10 years to over a century, but the consensus in the AGI research community seems to be that the timeline discussed by Ray Kurzweil in " The Singularity is Near " ( i. e. between 2015 and 2045 ) is plausible.

Neuroimaging technologies, that could deliver the necessary detailed understanding, are improving rapidly, and futurist Ray Kurzweil in the book The Singularity Is Near predicts that a map of sufficient quality will become available on a similar timescale to the required computing power.

| 10, 000, 000, 000, 000 bits ( 1. 25 terabytes ) – capacity of a human being's functional memory, according to Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near, p. 126

** 2045 – The Singularity ( creation of the first ultraintelligent machine ) occurs – Ray Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil mentions the concept several times in his book The Singularity Is Near ( 2005 ), following a similar train of thought.

Kurzweil asserts in his Law of Accelerating Returns that technology is progressing toward the Singularity at an exponential rate, relying almost entirely on empirical data.

Kurzweil first defines the Singularity as a point in the future when technological advances begin to happen so rapidly that normal humans cannot keep pace, and are " cut out of the loop.

Next, Kurzweil briefly lays out a number of postulates and consequences in the first chapter as they relate to the Singularity.

* Kurzweil predicts that machines will have the ability to make planet-sized computers by 2099, which underscores how enormously technology will advance after the Singularity.

In 2006, Barry Ptolemy and his production company Ptolemaic Productions licensed the rights to The Singularity Is Near from Kurzweil.

* Singularity. com, including reviews of the book and articles about Kurzweil

* Documentary-The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil on YouTube

* Ray Kurzweil, a computer pioneer and self-proclaimed Singularitarian, argues in The Singularity Is Near that the coming Singularity requires that Earth be the first planet on which sentient, technology-using life evolved.