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Chapter 6 has a page of predictions for 2010 (all ten captured from the author's 2010 essay) and a page for 2030 (not captured: no public text found). Other dated claims are spread through the book; captured only where Wikipedia quotes or summarises them with a page number. Paraphrased entries have quote null and a 'paraphrase' field.
Computers arriving at the beginning of the next decade will become essentially invisible: woven into our clothing, embedded in our furniture and environment.
rank 1kurzweil-2005-001
[Computers] will tap into the worldwide mesh (what the World Wide Web will become once all of its linked devices become communicating Web servers, thereby forming vast supercomputers and memory banks) of high-speed communications and computational resources.
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We’ll have very high-bandwidth wireless communication to the Internet at all times.
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Displays will be built into our eyeglasses and contact lenses and images projected directly onto our retinas.
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These resources will provide high-resolution, full-immersion, visual-auditory virtual reality at any time.
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We will also have augmented reality with displays overlaying the real world to provide real-time guidance and explanations.
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We’ll have real-time translation of foreign languages, essentially subtitles on the world.
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We’ll have access to many forms of online information in our daily activities.
rank 9kurzweil-2005-009
Virtual personalities that overlay the real world will help us with information retrieval and our chores and transactions. These virtual assistants won’t always wait for questions and directives but will step forward if they see us struggling to find a piece of information.
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by around 2020 ... for one thousand dollars
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capacity of all living biological human intelligence
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I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045.
rank 16kurzweil-2005-016