29 days ago by Mike Dojc

That may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Kurzweil, a member of the Inventor's Hall of Fame and a recipient of the National Medal of Technology, says that research well underway today is leading to a time when a combination of nanotechnology and biotechnology will …

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39 days ago by Tom James

Gerontologist Aubrey de Grey gives his thoughts on the technological singularity (subtypes: intelligence explosion and accelerating change) in this interview in h+ Magazine: I can’t see how the “event horizon” definition of the Singularity can occur other than by the creation of fully autonomous rec ...

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59 days ago by Tom James

MIT neuroengineer Edward Boyden has been speculating as to whether the singularity requires the machine-equivalent of what humans call “motivation”: I think that focusing solely on intelligence augmentation as the driver of the future is leaving out a critical part of the analysis–namely, the change ...

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66 days ago by Tom James

Alref Nordmann writes in IEEE Spectrum of how technological progress is, contrary to the promises of singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil, actually slowing down: Technological optimists maintain that the impact of innovation on our lives is increasing, but the evidence goes the other way. The author’s ...

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181 days ago by Katheline Jean-Pierre

The engineer, inventor, thinker and futurist Ray Kurzweil ( Ray Kurzweil bio; Ray Kurzweil wiki ) explains the exponential growth of information technologie under the concept of singularity. (Introduced to me by @ avinashkaushik & @Eliasgeha) The trend: Change not only accelerates, but follows an ex ...

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204 days ago

Posted here, for posterity, is a new, 2009 interview with Andrew WK from The Rumpus , about - in typically Weird fashion - most of the stuff I’ve been concerning myself with for the past year or so. (...)

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215 days ago by Tom James

To those of us with an interest in living long enough to live forever any indicator of exceptional longevity is of interest. Here researchers have identified particular personality traits associated with longevity: Because personality traits have been shown to have substantial heritable components, ...

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255 days ago by Paul Raven

Via George Dvorsky, here’s the trailer for Transcendent Man, the forthcoming film about the life and work of Ray Kurzweil: I’m pretty convinced that Kurzweil actually believes what he says, though only time will tell whether he’s right or not. However, this trailer doesn’t do much to disrupt Kurzwei ...

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