Kurzweil promises a nifty future. (but no jetpack)

In today's New York Times, there's an article about Ray Kurzweil, who's not a guy to be taken lightly. He invented a reading machine for the blind, then worked with Stevie Wonder to invent the modern synthesizer, and that's just a couple of his many significant inventions. I especially like the part about being able to eat anything and lose weight. Get working on that immediately, please.

*Yes, I know we should be combating world hunger, but I want to combat my own fatness. With a pill. That's the American way.

The article:
http://tinyurl.com/66cp3g

Monkeys, broken promises, and the return of Pong.

This is the 21st century, and monkeys can do more than we can:

Monkeys Control a Mechanical Arm With Their Thoughts
http://tinyurl.com/545x73


Why aren't we controlling everything with our minds? why am I typing this just like my grandpa would have, were he a writer and not a dance instructor who never owned a typewriter? Why am I not dictating this to my automatic transcriber thingie? where are the nutrition pills that taste like a steak dinner? I'm not even asking for the stupid jetpack, there are enough people complaining about that one.


Well, at long last there is a tiny little step: a brainwave-controlled mouse. Apparently, you can use it to play pong. Poorly, judging by the video on this review of the new OCZ nia.
http://tinyurl.com/55f55y

Still, it's a start. Not up to the monkey level, but not bad for for a couple of hundred bucks.