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: Proteomic Patterns and Diagnostic AI in 2003
Kurzweil’s 2005 proof-of-concept examples for AI diagnostics had a 50% mortality rate at the exemplar level — and 100% survival at the thesis level.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Thinking a Hand into Motion
Kurzweil nailed the BCI side of restoring movement. He was wrong about what would actually do the moving.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Regulation, Stem Cells, and the Stones-in-a-Stream Hypothesis
Kurzweil predicted in 2005 that stem-cell restrictions would accelerate transdifferentiation. A year later, Yamanaka did exactly that. Here is what the rest of his regulation thesis got right — and what 2025 is quietly rewriting.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Bridge One and the HDL Gamble
Kurzweil in 2005 picked torcetrapib and Apo-A-I Milano as his evidence that atherosclerosis reversal was imminent. Both failed. The drugs that actually regressed plaque came from mechanisms his book did not name.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Bloodstream Nanobots, Neural Implants, and Drugs-as-Software
One vindication by procurement, one falsification by Eroom’s Law, and a nanobot deadline that even Kurzweil has pushed back.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Nanomedicine Decade That Almost Happened
Every mechanism Kurzweil predicted for 2010s nanomedicine has now worked in a human body at least once. The clinic still looks nothing like he drew.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Human Body 2.0
Seven 2005 predictions about replacement organs, therapeutic cloning, and bloodstream nanobots — graded against 2026 reality.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Medical Nanomachines
Kurzweil’s press-a-button cancer kill arrived — just not through the mechanism he predicted. Respirocytes and microbivores remain on paper.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Auditing the Facts, Not the Forecasts
Ten things Kurzweil said were already true in 2005, audited against 2026 evidence. The most-cited stat about the human body turns out to be wrong — in both directions.