Ray Kurzweil on Accelerating Change

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil

accelerating change

So that means that the twentieth century wasn’t a hundred years of change at today’s rate of change, because we’ve been speeding up. It was actually twenty years of change at today’s rate of change. Exponential change is quite explosive, so in the next century we’ll make about twenty thousand years of change at today’s rate of progress⁠—about a thousand times greater than the twentieth century, and that century was no slouch for change.

Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea, page 231, Carter Phipps, New York: Harper Perennial, 2012

Related Quotes

B. H. RobertsB. H. Roberts

My brethren and sisters, I rejoice in the largeness of this work of God—this dispensation of the fulness of times. I love it, in part, because of its greatness—in its very bigness there is inspiration. I love to contemplate the puposes of God in their farreaching possibilities. I rejoice to feel that today the children of men are moving up to a higher and truer conception of the things of God.

Howard W. HunterHoward W. Hunter

In recent years we have begun using information technology to hasten the sacred work of providing ordinances for the deceased. The role of technology in this work has been accelerated by the Lord himself, who has had a guiding hand in its development and will continue to do so. However, we stand only on the threshold of what we can do with these tools.

D. H. FowlerD. H. Fowler

The world is getting better. One of the greatest evidences of it is the contrivances that men are continually bringing into use for the saving of time and energy. Only a few years ago the cured can of meat was about the only product of the packing house. Now there are sideproducts that form a great asset to the business.

More from Ray Kurzweil