CNN.com - 'Heaven' - Jun 19, 2006

By 2029 $1,000 dollars spent on a computer will get you something as powerful as 1,000 human brains --- this isn't based on speculation, Kurzweil asserts, but a mathematical model of how fast computer power is increasing. It will be hard to tell the difference between someone with a disability, and someone without and ailments such as blindness and deafness will be a thing of the past. Nanobots the size of blood platelets will be regularly injected into us as part of routine medical treatment and average life expectancy will be 120. There is no real difference between human and machine intelligence.