The Story Of Evolution Unfolds With Increasing

Science Fiction Is The Great Opportunity To Speculate On What Could Happen. It Does Give Me, As A Futurist, Scenarios.

My Mission At Google Is To Develop Natural Language Understanding With A Team And In Collaboration With Other Researchers At Google.

Intuition Is Linear; Our Imaginations Are Weak. Even The Brightest Of Us Only Extrapolate From What We Know Now; For The Most Part, We're Afraid To Really Stretch.

Take Death For Example. A Great Deal Of Our Effort Goes Into Avoiding It. We Make Extraordinary Efforts To Delay It, And Often Consider Its Intrusion A Tragic Event. Yet We'd Find It Hard To Live Without It. Death Gives Meaning To Our Lives. It Gives Importance And Value To Time. Time Would Become Meaningless If There Were Too Much Of It.

By The 2030s, The Nonbiological Portion Of Our Intelligence Will Predominate.