Kurzweil Data Entry Machine

  Kurzweil Educational Systems

  Kurzweil Music Systems

  Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM)

  Kurzweil Voice

  Kurzweil VoiceMed (Kurzweil Clinical Reporter)

  Landauer, Rolf

  language

  natural

  translating of

  Turing Test and

  language user interfaces (LUIs)

  LANs (local area networks)

  Lao-tzu

  Larson, Steve

  Latham, William

  Law of Accelerating Returns

  applied to computation

  applied to evolution

  brain scans and

  in flow chart

  quantum computing and

  scanning technologies and

  Universe and

  Law of Increasing Chaos

  Law of Increasing Entropy, see second law of thermodynamics

  Law of Time and Chaos

  laws of thermodynamics, see thermodynamics, laws of

  learning

  curve of

  in neural nets see also education; knowledge

  legal system

  Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lemout & Hauspie (L&H)

  Lewis. S.

  life

  evolution of

  life span

  light (photons)

  optical computing

  quantum effects and

  LISP (list processing)

  listening machines

  literary arts

  Cybernetic Poet

  logical positivism

  Logic Theorist

  Lovelace, Ada

  Ludd, Ned

  Luddites

  Florence Manifesto Brigade

  Kaczynski, Theodore (Ted)

  Remember York movement

  machines

  capabilities of animals vs.

  effect on employment

  Luddites and, see Luddites

  rights of see also artificial intelligence; computers; technology

  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

  mammals

  Mark 1

  markov models

  Marshal, Wallace

  Martin, Steve

  mathematics

  incompleteness theorem in

  quantum computers and

  recursion and

  sets in

  unsolvable problems in

  matter

  Max Planck Institute

  Mead, Carver

  Medical Learning Company

  medicine

  genetic therapies

  MYCIN system

  nanobots in

  neural implants in, see neural implants

  training in

  in 2009

  in 2019

  in 2029 see also disease

  meditation

  memory(ies)

  brain capacity and

  brain scans and; see also brain scans

  holographic nature of

  Merkle, Ralph

  Metcalfe, Robert

  Michael, Joseph

  Michelson, Albert Abraham

  microprocessors

  Microsoft

  Million of Instructions per Second (MIP)

  mind

  as machine, vs. mind beyond machine

  society of

  see also consciousness; philosophical issues

  mind-body problem

  mind triggers

  Minsky, Marvin

  on common sense

  on consciousness

  on Deep Blue

  on knowledge bases

  Perceptrons

  on society of mind

  mirrors

  mission critical system

  molecular computing

  Moore, Gordon

  Moore’s Law

  Moravec, Hans

  mortality life span

  Moser, David

  Mostly Original Substrate Humans (MOSHs)

  Mulcahy, Susan

  Murdoch, Iris

  music

  brain-generated

  instruments in

  Kurzweil synthesizers and

  Turing Test and

  MYCIN

  nanobots

  swarms of

  nanopathogens

  nanopatrols

  nanotechnology

  bodies enhanced with

  current examples of

  dangers of

  food and

  growth of industry

  life on Earth as

  self-replication in

  weapons and

  nanotubes

  neural implants

  feelings enhanced by

  identity and

  virtual environments and

  neural nets

  basic schema for

  combined with other methods

  in investment programs

  massively parallel

  pattern recognition in

  problem-solving in

  processors in

  reduction of information in

  self-organization in

  training of

  neurons

  devices for triggering

  information gleaned from brain scans on

  integrated circuits and

  number of, in brain

  quantum computation in

  slow speed of

  types of

  neuron transistors

  NeuroSonics

  neurotransmitters

  neutrons

  Newell, Allen

  Newton, Isaac

  1999

  Y2K and

  noise

  nuclear technology

  number factoring

  objective experience

  Olds, James

  Olson, Ken

  ontogeny

  optical character recognition (OCR)

  optical computing

  optical imaging

  order

  computation and

  in evolutionary processes

  and Law of Increasing Entropy

  Pagels, Heinz

  paper documents

  Papert, Seymour Perceptrons

  paradigms

  for intelligence, see intelligence, paradigms for

  parallel processing

  massive

  massively parallel neural nets

  Parkinson’s disease

  pathogens

  nanopathogens

  software

  pattern recognition

  Patterson, Francine

  Penrose, Roger

  Perceptron

  Perceptrons (Minsky and Papert)

  person-identification technologies

  Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)

  philosophical issues

  in 2009

  in 2019

  in 2029 see also consciousness; identity; spirituality

  phonemes

  phonograph records

  photons, see light

  phylogeny, ontogeny and

  picoengineering

  pipelining

  Planck, Max

  Plato

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  politics and society

  in 2009

  in 2019

  in 2029

  see also philosophical issues

  Popular Mechanics

  population

  positrons

  prediction(s)

  in Age of Intelligent Machines

  in information theory

  made in early days of AI

  made in the past see also future of computer technology

  Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

  primates

  communication and

  Principia Mathematica (Russell and Whitehead)

  print-to-speech software

  privacy see also encryption

  problem-solving

>   context in see also intelligence

  proteins

  protons

  punch cards

  quantum computing

  and consciousness in machines

  conscious observation and

  decoherence in

  digital computing compared with

  with DNA

  encryption and

  in human brain

  liquid

  mirror analogy

  uses of

  quantum entanglement

  quantum mechanics

  logic in

  quarks

  qu-bits

  Random Access Memory (RAM)

  randomness

  Ray, Thomas

  Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet (RKCP)

  reading machines:

  for blind

  for children

  recursion

  combined with other methods

  knowledge and

  Reddy, Raj

  relativity

  Relaxation Response

  religion see also spirituality

  Remember York movement

  retina

  implants for

  virtual displays and

  reverse engineering

  of brain ; see also brain scans

  Rich, Elaine

  Rizzo, Joseph

  RNA

  Robinson (computer)

  robots

  Rogers, Will

  Romero, Tim

  Rukeyser, Muriel

  Russell, Bertrand set theory of

  Russell’s Paradox

  Savage-Rumbaugh, Emily

  scanners

  scans, brain, see brain scans

  Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

  second law of thermodynamics

  Seinfeld, Kal and Jerry

  self-organization

  self-replication

  semiconductors

  Sensorium

  set theory

  sex

  virtual

  Shahn, Ben

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaw, J. C.

  SHRDLU

  Simon, Herbert

  simplification

  Sims, Karl

  Small, Jacquelyn

  Smalley, Richard

  Smolin, Lee

  Society of Mind, The (Minsky)

  solar cells

  solar systems

  “Solitary at Seventeen, The” (Spacks)

  soul

  Soviet Union

  spacecraft

  Space War

  Spacks, Barry

  speech

  speech recognition , Z99 see also continuous speech recognition

  speech-to-print devices

  spirituality

  God module and

  stars

  Star Trek

  Star Wars

  Steer, Clifford

  stock market and investment decisions

  strong force

  Student

  subjective experience

  of time see also consciousness

  supercomputers

  swarms

  Swinbume, Charles A.

  Synaptics

  synthesizers

  music

  teaching, teachers

  technology

  Clarke on

  constructive use of

  creation of

  definition and derivation of word

  economy and

  evolution of

  exponential growth of

  historical developments

  inevitability of

  knowledge and

  Luddites and, see Luddites

  merger of technology-inventing species with

  nanotechnology, see nanotechnology

  stages of

  stopping advance of

  technology created by

  transcendence of materials in see also arts; computers; language

  telephone

  translating

  Teller, Astro

  telomeres

  thermodynamics, laws of

  second

  time

  death and

  directionality of

  exponential nature of; see also exponential trends

  intelligence and

  Law of Time and Chaos

  linear

  speed of

  subjective

  and theory of relativity

  time line

  Today

  Todd, Stephen

  Toffler, Alvin

  Tolkien, J.R.R.

  tools

  Torrey, E. Fuller

  Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)

  transistors

  electron tunneling in

  Moore’s Law and, see Moore’s Law

  traveling salesperson problem

  Trosch, Rick

  tunneling

  Turing, Alan

  on acknowledging intelligence in machines

  Enigma code and

  Turing machine

  Turing Test

  musical

  Twilight Zone, The

  2000, Y2K and

  2009

  2019

  2029

  2099

  United States

  Universe:

  birth of