Computerworld - SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Human brains will someday extend into the cloud, futurist and computer pioneer Ray Kurzweil predicted at the DEMO conference here on Tuesday.
Moreover, he said, it will become possible to selectively erase pieces of our memories, while retaining some portions of them, to be able to learn new things no matter how old the person is.
"The brain doesn't grow much from a very young age," he said. Humans have, more or less, 300 million pattern-recognizing modules in the neocortex, the portion of the brain where thought occurs. "One of the reasons kids can learn new languages, or pretty much anything, so quickly is because they haven't filled up those pattern recognizers," he said. "It's virgin territory."
