Ray Kurzweil

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order.

each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

Recent theories of quantum gravity hold that time and space are broken down into discrete quanta, essentially fragments of information.

we do know that atomic structures store and represent discrete information.

Chemistry was born a few million years later as atoms came together to create relatively stable structures called molecules.

it’s clear that the physical laws of our universe are precisely what they need to be to allow for the evolution of increasing levels of order and complexity.9

Of all the elements, carbon proved to be the most versatile; it’s able to form bonds in four directions (versus one to three for most other elements), giving rise to complicated, information-rich, three-dimensional structures.

We have the ability to redesign the world in our own minds and to put these ideas into action.

Combining the endowment of rational and abstract thought with our opposable thumb, our species ushered in the fourth epoch and the next level of indirection: the evolution of human-created technology.