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Inventing the future

Here's an interesting thought, from an interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil:

I realized that my inventions had to make sense when the project was finished, rather than for the world that existed when the research project began, and invariably the world was a different place three or four years later. Most technology projects fail not because the inventors are unable to get the thing to work, but because the timing is wrong. So I became an ardent student of technology trends. I now have a group of ten people assisting me to gather data on key trends, and we develop mathematical models of technology evolution that have proven remarkably accurate over the last couple of decades. So this enables me to essentially invent with the technologies of the future.

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