To put the Ray Kurzweil video simply, it was very eye-opening. I know technology is really advanced and can do some amazing things, but I did not realize we were so close to such amazing breakthroughs. The whole idea of technology exponentially evolving was very interesting. New technologies catch on so much faster today and everyone is keeping up.
One thing I liked about his speech/lecture, was that he got right down to business. He immediately started addressing problems and then explained solutions for those problems. I lost him during some points he made, and at other times I just stared at the screen with a blank expression on my face because of how advanced things got. I was able to follow for the most part and was pretty amazed at some of the trends and how seemingly easy they were to track. It's amazing how the world is so random and "chaotic" as Kurzweil explained it, yet these trends are so predictable. Creating technologies with the technologies we already have was another interesting point he brought up. Creating the telegraph, then decades later the phone, then decades later, the cell phone, which only took about 8 years to really flourish.
One thing that scared me a little bit was the shrinking of technology. When he went into creating robot red blood cells that were like "super" blood cells, that really blew my mind. Thinking about combating virus', and all the other possiblities really blows my mind. The thing that scares me however is the human and animal testing which may be involved. Human testing with technologies this advanced have the potential to really mess a person up. If done safely and humanely though, these technologies will take mankind to a whole 'nother level.
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