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Futurist (and current director of engineering at Google) Ray Kurzweil has made a lot of predictions about the future--and many of them have come true. In his 1990 book "The Age of Intelligent Machines," Kurzweil foresaw things like the Internet's fast and widespread adoption, wearable devices, the cloud, and artificial intelligence being able to beat the world's best chess players by 2000. Overall, Kurzweil claims to have an 86 percent accuracy rate on his predictions from that book. Kurzweil's daughter, Amy, is a cartoonist and children's book author, and the two shared a stage at South by Southwest on March 13 to discuss the future of art, storytelling, and creativity in general. Here are four predictions the elder Kurzweil made about where those things are going.