I think prophecies (or predictions) are a long standing cultural hack. I remain extremely unimpressed by Kurzweil's predictions. Just because most people are un

I think prophecies (or predictions) are a long standing cultural hack. I remain extremely unimpressed by Kurzweil's predictions. Just because most people are uninterested in making predictions doesn't make them especially hard. Just about everything he's claimed as 'correct' was being researched in some form at the time he made the predictions, and was certainly in science fiction long before that. So considering that, mostly he put dates on a random set of things coming to pass. Then he uses extremely generous criteria to define when something he predicted has occurred and essentially throws out the actual timeframe when doing so. And that was the only bit he really predicted in the first place. Somehow it works on people though. Just go ahead and anoint him your High Priest, save yourself the confusion.