Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Needs to Keep Quiet

Back in the 1970s, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist named William Shockley created quite a stir when he suggested that certain races (i.e., black people) were “genetically inferior” to whites and Asians, and that in order for the human race to have any chance of “improving” itself, people with IQs lower than 100 should submit to voluntary sterilization.  Other than that, nothing he said was particularly controversial.

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Humans Will Merge with Computers by 2029

Technological singularity – humans becoming one with computers – will morph us into “super humans” by the year 2029. Fake news? A new science fiction novel? TV show? Nope. It’s a prediction made by Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil. He’s made 147 predictions since the 1990’s, and he has an 86% success rate. [1]
Source: International Business Times
A few of Kurzweil’s predictions that came true: