Mind from the Immortality Institute is livecasting from Convergence 08 in Mountain View: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sunday-evening-update
Articles in category 'Singularity'
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 attend a discussion on possible creation of Singularity University
at NASA Ames.
http://mindbroker.de/wiki/SingularityUniversity
The father of nanotechnology. We’re still waiting on the SingSum videos for 08. So far I’ve found none.
In San Jose, California - October 25th 2008.
For more information go here.
No Aubrey?
Ehh …
http://spectrum.ieee.org/images/jun08/images/swho_full.pdf
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 “transhumanism” itself as an appropriate title for what “this” is.
Good on, go reading.
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 luminary. Here is the first part of a 42 hour (!) video series. Zip over the the Buckminster […]
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 faculty. Four decades later, the computer in your cellphone is a million times smaller, a million times […]
