Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.