Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

Play is just another version of work

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.