new ice - almost ready for skates

"Biological evolution for animals as complex s human beings takes tens of thousands of years to make noticeable, albeit still small, differences. The entire history of human cultural and technological evolution has taken place on that time scale. Yet we are now poised to ascend beyond the fragile and slow creations of biological evolution in a mere several decades. Current progress is on a scale that is a thousand to a million times faster than biological evolution."

Ray Kurweil

"The first industrial revolution extended the reach of our bodies, and the second is extending the reach of our minds."

Ray Kurzweil