Ray Kurzweil on the CNN Glenn Beck Show: Establishment propaganda mouthpiece Glenn Beck drooled over Transhumanism-messiah & DARPA / Google-insider Ray Kurzweil for 40 minutes.

This aired on 5-30-08. Typical Ray Kurzweil performance. Early mention of how Ray is working with Google co-founder (Larry Page) for a government sanctioned initiative. That's an interesting name to come up, but of course it was only in the context of solar panels rather than the open-secret DARPA / NASA / Google military operation to kick-start the 'Technological Singularity" (god-like AI outcome with humans neurologically merged into it / a hive-mind) in roughly 5 years time.

This is imporant because in Ray's books and speeches he speaks about the Singularity as if it is inevitable, of course, but frames it as if it will inherently or naturally rise out from predictable technological progress, alone. And that's it folks. He doesn't like to talk about what difference would there be if the military and their contemporaries such as Google, Microsoft, IBM and the rest had a Manhatten Project'esque full-scale initiative to usher it in in the shortest time physically possible.

So he just projects everything as "within 20 years", but leaves it at that. He honestly tells what 'they' believe they're going to achieve, but forgets to honestly warn what it all means in the real world while dodging the cold hard reality of what he and his associates are intentionally attempting to make reality in short time. At least NIH-insider Dr. Ben Goertzal is honest enough to tell it could come within 10 years if such a Manhatten Project existed, but he too fails to discuss that it is already in motion.

While we're at it, Ray does in-general actually contridict himself about his own predictions in the form of projecting that in 20 years affordable ($1000) computers will be able to do such. That's fine, until we get to what I mentioned in the last paragraph. At that point his predictions become backwards, because he speaks only about the 'natural' rise of it, but not the 'un-natural'. In the meantime... if this whole AI / AGI 'god on earth' thing is even physically possible, it will require exhaustive resources and efforts to achieve in the semi-near future. In short, it will require the utmost of human intent, and 'resolve', and the current existence of such is nowhere to be found anywhere in Ray's talking points, ever.