I’m building tools that find hidden connections across scientific fields — using 9 million patents and 357 million academic papers to surface the cross-domain analogies that nobody is looking for. This is where I write about the work, the ideas, and the data emerging from the frontier.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Social Predictions Were Right About Speed, Wrong About Bodies
Ten 2005 predictions about adoption, VR, cloning, designer babies, productivity, and poverty. The information predictions beat the schedule. The body predictions all broke.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Zoom Killed the Commute Kurzweil Assigned to VR
Kurzweil predicted immersive VR would replace travel. It did. The substitute just runs on a WebEx-era flat video stack, not a headset.
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The Epigenetic Reset: Mapping the Age Reversal Frontier
In January 2026, the FDA cleared the first-ever human clinical trial of partial epigenetic reprogramming. Life Biosciences began dosing patients with a gene therapy designed to reverse blindness by resetting retinal cells to a younger state. This is the moment the field crossed from animal models into humans. $8.5BLongevity investment (2024) 109%Mouse lifespan extension 61Tissue…
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Swarm Came for Us, Not the Abrams
2005 predicted 120-robot DARPA swarms for us. 2025 delivered drones that destroyed 87 percent of our Abrams fleet.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Plasticity Evidence Held. The Synthesis Didn’t.
Nine of ten plasticity findings Kurzweil cited in 2005 held up. The reverse-engineering synthesis they were supposed to enable did not.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: He Named the Right Problems. He Named the Wrong Labs.
Kurzweil’s 2005 brain-scanning scouting report named specific labs. The milestones mostly arrived — through different teams entirely.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The 2005 Neuroscience Textbook Held. The Instruments Didn’t.
Kurzweil’s 2005 neuroscience facts held up. His fMRI and MEG specs got beaten — by instruments he didn’t name.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Brain-Scanning Wall Kurzweil Won’t Admit Out Loud
Nine of ten neuroscience claims from 2005 held up. The tenth — brain scanning doubling yearly — hit the physics of blood flow and skulls, and Kurzweil concedes it in the 2024 book.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The 2005 Nanotech Roadmap Went Soft
Nine of ten nanotech milestones Kurzweil cited in 2005 were real. Almost none reached a product through the mechanism he named.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Body 2.0 Arrived at a Grain of Rice
Kurzweil forecast diamondoid respirocytes in bloodstreams by the 2020s. What arrived instead is a 1.8-millimeter magnetic microrobot entering human trials in 2026 — right direction, wrong scale by three orders of magnitude.