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Champernowne, David
Chang, Young
chaos
evolution and
evolutionary algorithms and
Law of Increasing Chaos
Law of Time and Chaos
Chelyabinsk
,Chernobyl
chess
Deep Blue’s playing of
legend of inventor of
Pick Best Move program for
quantum computing and
China
legend of emperor of
chips, computer
Moore’s Law and,
see
Moore’s Law
see
Moore’s Law
three-dimensional
Chuang, Isaac
Chuang-tzu
Church, Alonzo
Church, Ken
Churchill, Winston
Church-Turing thesis
Clarke, Arthur C
cochlear implants
Cohen, Harold
color perception
Colossus
common sense
communication
in animals
in arts
future technologies for
compact disc (CD)
compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM)
complexity
computation
achieving human-level capabilities in
crystalline
density of
destruction of information in
digital
DNA
exponential growth of
inevitability of
on Internet, proposal for
irreversibility of
Law of Accelerating Returns applied to
nanotubes and
optical
order and
quantum,
see
quantum computing
see
quantum computing
Turing Machine model of
see also
artificial intelligence; intelligence
artificial intelligence; intelligence
computers
art and,
see
arts
see
arts
Babbage’s Analytical Engine
chips in,
see
chips, computer
see
chips, computer
consciousness in
dependence on
first American programmable
intelligence of,
see
artificial intelligence
see
artificial intelligence
knowledge gathering and sharing by
Moore’s Law and,
see
Moore’s Law
see
Moore’s Law
neural,
see
neural nets
see
neural nets
number of
past predictions made about
programming of, compared with evolution
in schools
speed and power of
supercomputers
in 2009
in 2019
in 2029
world’s first operational
Y2K and
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
(Turing)
(Turing)
consciousness
brain and
in computers/AI
Descartes’s dictum and
as “different kind of stuff”
in evolution
as function of pattern, vs. particles
human inability to understand
logical positivist view of
as machine reflecting on itself
multiple
Plato’s views on
quantum mechanics and
schools of thought on
testability of
Turing Test and, see Turing Test
Universe and
see also
identity
identity
context
continuous speech recognition (CSR)
Voice Xpress Plus
Cope, David
cosmological constant
Crick, Francis H. C.
cryonics
crystalline computing
Cser, Jim
Curl, Robert
deaf persons
cochlear implants for
death,
see
mortality
see
mortality
Debussy, Claude
Deep Blue (chess-playing computer)
De Garis, Hugo
DENDRAL
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes, René
digital
digital computing
digital video disc (DVD)
dinosaurs
disabilities
blindness,
see
blind persons
see
blind persons
deafness,
see
deaf persons
see
deaf persons
neural implants and, see neural implants
prosthetic devices and
in 2009
in 2019
in 2029
disease
cancer
cryonics and
pathogens in,
see
pathogens
see
pathogens
see also
medicine
medicine
DNA
computing with
error correction in
in evolution
of
Homo sapiens
vs. primates
Homo sapiens
vs. primates
protein synthesis and
see also
genes, genetic code
see also
genes, genetic code
Dogbert
Donovan
Drexler, Eric
Dreyfus, Hubert
driving
drugs
Dyson, Esther
Earth
formation of
eating
economy,
see
business, economics, and finance
see
business, economics, and finance
Edison, Thomas Alva
education
computers in schools
teachers and teaching in
in 2009
in 2019
in 2029
see also
learning
see also
learning
Einstein, Albert
cosmological constant of
on simplification
theory of relativity of
Eisenhower, Dwight
electrocardiogram (EKG)
electromagnetic force
electrons
tunneling of
electroweak force
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence)
emotions
in animals
produced by brain stimulation
Emperors New Mind, The
(Penrose)
(Penrose)
employment
encryption
Pretty Good Privacy
quantum
engines, jet
Engines of Creation
(Drexler)
(Drexler)
Enigma code
entropy
Increasing, Law of,
see
second law of thermodynamics
see
second law of thermodynamics
Evans, Thomas G.
evolution
acceleration of time in
of body and brain
chaos and order in
complexity and
computer programming compared with
computer simulation of
of conscious life
consciousness in
DNA-based
and end of Universe
of evolution
of eye
fetal development and
inefficiency of
intelligence of
Law of Accelerating Returns applied to
of life-forms
natural selection in
pace of
of pathogens
Punctuated Equilibrium theories on
record of achievement in
of technology
evolutionary algorithms
basic schema for
in investment programs
knowledge and
self-organization in
visual arts and
Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI)
expert systems
exponential trends
growth of computation
growth of technology
in legend of chess inventor and emperor
nature of time
predictions and
quickening pace in evolution
slowing pace in development of Universe
slowing pace in progression of organism’s life
eye see also retina
face-recognition systems
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