We continuously make the mistake to think that the future is just like the present, but bigger (or smaller) , faster, and stronger. In reality the future will be more different and weirder than most people can imagine. ”Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.” -POPULAR MECHANICS, 1949 Quote featured in The Singularity is Near (2005) by Ray Kurzweil #bookstr #plebchain