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Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil wrote an essay in 2001, "The Law of Accelerating Returns," that describes an exponential path to what for many is an unimaginable future. How certain is the exponential he describes?
In the world of hospitality, legacy technology gets a bad rap – and it’s no secret why. Unlike fine wine or nostalgic memories created and shared with friends and loved ones, the technology we utilize to enhance our personal and professional lives is meant to evolve at an accelerated pace.
Leveraging new organizational techniques in five key areas can have a disproportionally large impact.
In his 1999 'Law of Accelerating Returns', inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil proposed that technology would advance exponentially over the next decades so that human civilisation could achieve in the first twenty years of the 21st century the equivalent of what had been achieved throughout the entire 20th century. While this is now, in retrospect, questionable, actual technological advancements since the 20th century have nevertheless brought about the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually surpass human intelligence. Though AI is at the moment capable of sensing, r...