Machine intelligence to match human's by '2029'

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Submitted by pkoduru on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 07:54.

This was the prediction by Ray Kurzweil (http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html). We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains... to make us smarter

18 influential thinkers including Kurzweil, Larry Page (http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#larry) and Craig Venter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter) have come up with 14 areas of challenges that we as humans need to address at the moment. The list of the problems are:
- Make solar energy affordable
- Provide energy from fusion
- Develop carbon sequestration
- Manage the nitrogen cycle
- Provide access to clean water
- Reverse engineer the brain
- Prevent nuclear terror
- Secure cyberspace
- Enhance virtual reality
- Improve urban infrastructure
- Advance health informatics
- Engineer better medicines
- Advance personalised learning
- Explore natural frontiers

Interesting read and details can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248875.stm