Ray Kurzweil gave a speech to a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston yesterday. According to The Independent he claimed that computers will be as smart as people by 2030. Hmm, that’s just 23 years away. Am I likely to last that long? Probably not. It would be interesting to see, though.

Of course, as is the way of futurology, Kurzweil will be proved to be either hopelessly optimistic or hopelessly pessimistic. Meanwhile, I’m still reading Matter. As you should know, in The Culture the AIs keep humans as pets.