Via Computerworld, a passage on Ray Kurzweil holding forth at the DEMO conference last week: “You can learn new material at any age, but there is a limited capacity. That’s one of the things we will overcome by basically expanding the brain into the cloud,’ he said. ‘We need to be able to repurpose our neocortex to learn something new. People who have a rigid process and hold onto old information; they will have a hard time doing that. You need to be able to move on.’

While Kurzweil did not give a timetable for these predictions, he said the notion of ‘brain extenders’ has already begun thanks to technology including IBM’s Watson supercomputer and augmented reality. ‘I think we’ll be in augmented reality all the time,’ Kurzweil said.”