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Ray Kurzweil predicts that a universal trend toward greater complexity and intelligence will culminate in a technological singularity in 2045, when technology becomes unimaginably advanced.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“He just thinks that there is a trend toward a great.”
“The greater complexity and intelligence that runs through absolutely everything and that is pointing to a time in the very near future,”
“he has repeatedly said the year 2045,”
“is when the singularity arrives and our technology becomes unimaginably advanced.”Play from 6:59Report a misattribution
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