The NSA quietly patented a reversible-computing fluxon circuit in 2024. Vaire taped out a chip that recovers half its energy in 2025. Kurzweil predicted this twenty years ago — but the path looks different than he drew it.
Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 answer to his critics rested on reversible computing, algorithmic progress, and the claim that complex software isn’t brittle. Twenty years later, the silicon held up. The software part did not.