Specifically, he describes how it relates to the Better All the Time view of the world:
People who suggest that it’s all fleeting and going to come crashing to a halt remind me of the people that Gregg Easterbrook identified in The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. By any measurable–I said measurable–standard, the human condition is improving in the vast majority of the world. You name it–health, lifespan, clean water, clean air, abundant food, leisure time, health, safety, security, mobility, education, it’s all getting better. Yet as this happens, people are convinced that things are getting worse anyway.
Methinks most of Kurzweil’s critics are guilty of a similar type of thinking: we can’t possibly be on such an amazing technological cusp can we? Surely something must make it all come crashing to a halt soon, right?
Need I say it? Read the whole thing.