So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.
Ray KurzweilSupercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Ray KurzweilThe profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
Ray KurzweilThere is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.
Ray Kurzweil