Singularity: The Movie!
Great interviews with Kurzweil at Wired and and at Computer World. Check ‘em out! Worldpeace, Ben
View ArticleSupport Aubrey and the Methuselah Foundation
For every vid response he gets he will donate $10. GET YOUR VID RESPONSES IN NOW!!
View ArticleLongevity Meme Newsletter 12/24/07 Released
Check it out here. - Is There a Potential Longevity Therapy in Mitoptosis? – Our Folding@Home Team Closes In On Rank 200 – Choice and Freedom – Discussion – Latest Healthy Life Extension Headlines
View ArticleTranshumanist Meetup 1/17/2007 Recap
Greetings! I went to the Boston Transhumanist Meetup last night. It was great. Topics ranged from controlling mitochondrial DNA mutation, to AI, modeling consciousness, what is consciousness?, Eastern...
View ArticleUncanny Valley and the Breaking of the 4th Wall
I experienced this whilst playing the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Jamais Cascio has a great article on Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley hypothesis* over at his blog Open the Future....
View ArticleJohn Smart – Singularity Institute
John Smart, Acceleration Studies Foundation Founder & President, October 2007
View ArticleKurzweil ’08 Singularity Summit Audio
Stumbled a good speech by Ray Kurzweil and Q&A session from the 2007 Singularity Summit. Picture from the set of “Transcendent Man.”
View ArticleBen Goertzel AGI-08 Summary and Radio Interview
Ben Goertzel summarizes AGI-08. Also check out the interview with Ben @ Fast Forward Radio here.
View ArticleNew SD Podcast
George Dvorsky’s latest Sentient Developments podcast includes 8 things you can do to live forever. Check it out!
View ArticleRay Kurzweil: Making the World A Billion Times Better
MIT was so advanced in 1965 (the year I entered as a freshman) that it actually had a computer. Housed in its own building, it cost $11 million (in today’s dollars) and was shared by all students and...
View ArticleBuckminster Fuller –“Everything I Know” Tape 1a
Friend of mine from DIYbio Boston notified me that the exponential curve graph Ray has in his book TSINT was preceded by an exact same graph from Buck Fuller’s “Utopia or Oblivion.” Bucky Fuller is a...
View ArticleMischaracterizing the Singularity
George Dvorsky and Michael from Accelerating Future have two great articles up detailing how the Singularity is being mischaracterized. Sci-Fi author Greg Egan also levels an attack against the word...
View ArticleA Singularity Who’s Who
No Aubrey? Ehh … http://spectrum.ieee.org/images/jun08/images/swho_full.pdf
View ArticleThe Singularity Summit 2008
In San Jose, California – October 25th 2008. For more information go here.
View ArticleDrexler @ SingSum 07
The father of nanotechnology. We’re still waiting on the SingSum videos for 08. So far I’ve found none.
View ArticleSingularity University
On September 20, 2008, I was invited by Ray Kurzweil (Co-founder, Kurzweil Technologies), Peter Diamandis (Chairman/CEO X PRIZE Foundation), and Dr. Pete Worden (Director, NASA Ames Research Center) to...
View ArticleNASA and Google for Singularity University
There was some chat about this leading up to SingSum 08 and it looks like the project is on full forward go ahead. NASA will be providing space at the Ames Research Center and Google will be providing...
View ArticleFastForward Radio — The End of Scarcity — Live Tonight!
Note: Due to technical difficulties, tonight’s program will air one hour later than previously announced. Tonight Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon will talk live with futurist Joseph Jackson....
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