GDC Update 8: Ray Kurzweil Keynote

The Next 20 Years of Gaming

The telephone as virtual reality
Virtual Boy
creating mathematical models of technology trends
current diet drugs work by inhibiting appetite, that's like a birth control pill that works by decreasing interest in sex...fat insulin receptor gene...our intuition wants to work in a linear fashion, it was only 6 or 7 years that most people did not even use search engine...you can't ignore the exponential, the new Kurzweil readung machine is integrated into a cell phone, this is a great exampe of using a cell phone for what it is best at, great demo, if you understand something in only one way - then you don't really understand it at all,   "play is how we principally learn", 5 years to tipping point when watts from solar power will be cheaper than watts from oil/coal, doubling the amount of solar power every two years,

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