Ten Kurzweil claims from 2005, graded against 2026 data: adoption curves compressed faster than he predicted, B2B e-commerce blew past his trillion-dollar marker tenfold, and the Luddite backlash he pushed to the 2030s is already in the room.
Frontier and Hala Point already exceed the computing capacity Kurzweil predicted for human-brain emulation by the mid-2020s. Almost every architectural detail he attached to the prediction was wrong.