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 Medicine That Was Already Happening in 2005
Twenty-one years after Singularity Is Near, ten claims Kurzweil said were already true: what held up, what got overtaken, and the company whose path he rewrote.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Nanobots in the Bloodstream and the Artificial Pancreas That Wasn’t
The endocrine organ MicroCHIPS was supposed to ship by 2008 now rides a belt clip — while a May 2024 patent claims Kurzweil’s telomere-reset stem cells nearly word-for-word.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Nanobots, RNA Antivirals, and the Medical Body Shop That Didn’t Arrive on Schedule
Kurzweil called the targets on medicine but missed the projectiles: wastewater not serum, mRNA not RNAi, senolytics not nanobots.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Neural Prosthetics and the Brain–Machine Frontier
Twelve Kurzweil predictions about brain prosthetics, tested against the patents granted last quarter and the papers in NEJM from last October.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Human Body 2.0 — The GLP-1 Pivot, the Maglev Heart, and a Very Late Microbivore
Kurzweil predicted diamondoid organs by the 2030s. What shipped is peptide drugs, living cells, and a titanium impeller on a magnetic field.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Regenerative-Medicine Bets, and the Paradigm That Replaced Them
Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 medical predictions mostly reached their destinations — but almost never by the roads he named.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Reprogramming Biology, from Respirocytes to Stem-Cell Islets
Twelve 2005 predictions on cell therapy, gene therapy, anti-amyloid vaccines, and diamondoid nanobots scored against 2026 clinical trials, patent filings, and approvals.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Stacked Memory, Mesh Dreams, and the Sixth Paradigm’s Actual Shape
Twenty years after The Singularity Is Near, 3D NAND is everywhere, Nantero still hasn’t shipped, and the mesh lost to the cloud.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Law of Accelerating Returns, Twenty Years On
Kurzweil’s curve kept bending. Almost none of the specific mechanisms he nominated to keep it bending actually arrived.