# Humans May Stop Being Earth’s Smartest Entities by Ray Kurzweil > "Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent type of entity on the planet." > **— Ray Kurzweil**, *The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), excerpt candidate* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), excerpt candidate. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Ray Kurzweil|Ray Kurzweil]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] - [[wiki/Space Technology|Space Technology]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Machine Territory|Machine Territory]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent type of entity on the planet." — Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), excerpt candidate https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ray-kurzweil-humans-earths-smartest-entities ```