It sure feels like they’re indulging a legitimately mentally unstable person. But their audience doesn’t know that the way they talk about him.
Kurzweil is well known in the tech world for his impressive track record of accurately predicting timelines for technological advances. He successfully predicted the proliferation of portable computers (i.e. cell phones and laptops) and WiFi, the existence of cloud computing, and that a computer would beat a chess champion at the game by 1998 (which happened in 1997), among many others. That said, he’s also been wrong many times over. No one can predict the future, even with all the data in the world at their fingertips.
They bury that ‘he’s been wrong many times over’ at the end because the “among many others” is bullshit. He’s been right a handful of times and very wrong most of the rest of the time.
And honestly, I don’t think any of those were hard to predict. Especially WiFi. It’s not like we didn’t already have two-way radio communication, including data transfers.
It sure feels like they’re indulging a legitimately mentally unstable person. But their audience doesn’t know that the way they talk about him.
They bury that ‘he’s been wrong many times over’ at the end because the “among many others” is bullshit. He’s been right a handful of times and very wrong most of the rest of the time.
And honestly, I don’t think any of those were hard to predict. Especially WiFi. It’s not like we didn’t already have two-way radio communication, including data transfers.