It’s hard not to be wildly optimistic about what the future holds when Ray Kurzweil lays it out it so matter-of-factly.

Our intuition is linear, so many scientists think in linear terms and expect that the slow pace of the past will characterize the future. But the reality of progress in information technology is exponential, not linear. What used to take up a building now fits in my pocket, and what now fits in my pocket will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

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Billionaire Investor Warren Buffet has a way of boiling down complex issues into matter of fact pearls of wisdom. Today’s Op-Ed piece in the New York Times is nothing less.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/opinion/19buffett.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=opinion