On intelligence - I just recently finished Ray Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near". While he's extravagantly optimistic about the future performance of computing (things are growing at a double exponential rate and will continue until we fill the universe with computational power, he claims!) he is almost certainly right about a few things - one of which is that we will, sometime this century, achieve artificial intelligence levels on computing systems that are close to or even beyond what human brains can do. When that point happens, whether you call it the "Singularity" or not, something profoundly new is going to be on our scene; it will necessarily radically change humanity.

what do you think will be the next big inventions in the near future that doesnt seem impossible

• the next- the next after what?

Please define:

• big invention
• the near future
• doesn't seem impossible