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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Millions of Artificial People Arrived Early. The Nanobots Didn’t.

April 18, 2026

Character.AI hit 20M users three years early; brain nanobots didn’t show up. Kurzweil’s VR, BCI, and mind-upload predictions scored against 2026 reality.

Kurzweil Scorecard: Thinking a Hand into Motion

April 18, 2026

Quiet Breakouts

Kurzweil nailed the BCI side of restoring movement. He was wrong about what would actually do the moving.

Kurzweil Scorecard: Brain Barriers and Silicon Nerves

April 18, 2026

Quiet Breakouts

Three 2005 neurotech bets: BBB peptides, neurons-on-chips, and visual models piping images into brains. Two arrived by different mechanisms. One is in a human patient’s head.

Tag: BCI

Kurzweil Scorecard: The Millions of Artificial People Arrived Early. The Nanobots Didn’t.

Kurzweil Scorecard: Thinking a Hand into Motion

Kurzweil Scorecard: Brain Barriers and Silicon Nerves