I was at GDC and saw this keynote. I'm not sure why it was a GDC keynote. The talk was barely even tangentially related to game development.<p>The talk was similar to his TED talk but an hour long rather than 20 minutes.
<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38</a>
If Kurzweil is right about even a fraction of the stuff he says, I'm fairly certain he'll prove to be an exceptionally important thinker. Unfortunately, I have serious doubts about almost everything the man says. He often seems to me to be taking the canned shot approach to writing: predict as many big things as possible and support them all as best he can, and see what hits.<p>In other news, this reminded me a post I saw a few years ago: <a href="http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2005/09/most-important-weblog-in-world-what.html" rel="nofollow">http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2005/09/most-important-w...</a><p>"As the American economist Tyler Cowen points out, loony extropian and transhuman nanotechnoartificiallinteligenceoboosterist Ray Kurzweil is, because of his wild technoutopian prophesies, "the most important thinker today, if only in expected value terms".<p>Or at least he was, until this morning when while having my breakfast, I made the following prediction:<p>"Everything that Ray Kurzweil says will come true, and not only that but we will all get a pony"."