Not going to go into a full spiel on how I feel about on how I feel about this, but Kurzweil has estimated ubiquitous everyday nanotech as being fully mature at 2010, including a COMPLETE brains able to be reverse engineered by 2020. retina embedded computers, full immersion VR, cured diabetes, breathing underwater(!), everyone sprinting...
I know he's been on this stuff for a while, but it's really gotten closer hasn't it
http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/files/raykurzweil.html
I know he's been on this stuff for a while, but it's really gotten closer hasn't it
http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/files/raykurzweil.html