The speaker shares reflections on the incredible progress of aviation and how quickly people can now travel, compared to a hundred or two hundred years ago. Even a short trip now would have taken years in the past.
The pace of innovation is constantly accelerating and what we create in the next decade or two will make our current technology seem outdated. Looking back a hundred years ago, innovations were much slower and limited in scope compared to present times.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts significant extension of healthy human lifespan and advancements in AI and technology that will make the world more automated and magical than ever before, with brain computer interfaces becoming more commonplace.