While I share the overall skeptical attitude, I have to say translation software is already a part of my daily life. I am a bit of an outlier, being a foreign language instructor, but much of these uses are for my personal life in countries where I have a minimal grasp of the language. I frequently have conversations on an app called WeChat which has a built-in translation function. However, the quality of translation software output hasn't noticibly progressed in the last decade or so since Altavista's Babel Fish was replaced by Google Translate. Asian languages are still as likely as not to be rendered into English wordpasta. I'd like to see Kurzweil's past predictions. I always hear techno-utropian say that his predictions have been highly accurate so far (this infographic calims 89%), but I have yet to see the substance. And I'm not about to do the research myself.