Famed Futurist: "We Can Meet All Our Energy Needs from Solar in 20 Years"

Photo: borkur.net , Flickr, CC Ray Kurzweil is arguably the world’s most famous futurist. He laid out the law of accelerating returns, which states that technology improves at exponential rates, and made a string of dead-on predictions about computing in the 80s — that a computer would beat a man at chess by 1998, and that the world would link networks into some crazy globally connected system sometime in the mid-90s. Now, Kurzweil is talking solar. In an intervi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Famed Futurist: "We Can Meet All Our Energy Needs from Solar in 20 Years"

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