"The universe is moving toward greater complexity, greater intelligence, greater coordination. This is not an opinion — it is measurable. Every S-curve of technology is the universe finding a new coordination strategy. The singularity is just the next coordination threshold."
Inventor, entrepreneur, and Google's director of engineering, Kurzweil has made more verified technological predictions than any other living futurist. His law of accelerating returns describes how each technological paradigm coordinates information and energy more efficiently than the last, enabling the next paradigm at exponential speed.