Is Ray Kurzweil's Singularity Nearer or Still Impossible?

They were responding to the famed futurist's prediction at the COSM 2019 Technology Summit that we will merge with our computers by 2045--The Singularity. "Our intelligence will then be a combination of our biological and non-biological intelligence," he explained. We will then be apps of our smart computers. Kurzweil, a Director of Engineering at Google, should be taken seriously. He boasts a 30-year track record of accurate predictions and many key patents.