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Sweet Little Lies – The Bitter Truth About Sugar

The world is hooked on sugar. Ray Kurzweil calls it the “White Satan.” And he might be onto something. The [...]

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Kurzweil’s Next Book: Creating An Artificial Mind

Ray Kurzweil is working on another book, this one to explore the principles of human level intelligence in machines. Titled [...]

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‘Singularity Is Near’ Movie Will Premier at Sonoma Film Festival April 16th

Those looking to hear about the future of technology straight from the horse’s mouth should head to Sonoma next weekend. [...]

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Kurzweil Predictions on Wikipedia – The Future Anyone Can Edit

Ray Kurzweil’s made a name for himself by forecasting the future. He foresaw the fall of the Soviet Union, the [...]

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Singularity University’s Summer Program Doubling in Size – Sign Up Now

Singularity University’s inaugural Graduate Studies Program was such a success last year that they’ve decided to double the class size. [...]

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Kurzweil Discusses the Future of Brain Computer Interfaces (Video)

Offering money as a prize for scientific endeavors has a long history of success. That’s how we got a clock [...]

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Kurzweil Defends Predictions for 2009, Says He is 102 for 108.

How accurately must you predict the future before you can call yourself a futurist? That’s the central question in a [...]

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Kurzweil Demos Blio at CES (Video)

The book of the future may not seem much like a book at all. Those static pieces of wood pulp [...]

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Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With New E-Reader Platform Blio

Amazon sold more books in digital media than on paper this Christmas and 2010 looks to be the year of [...]

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Transcendent Man Will Be Screened at AFI Fest, Nov 5

AFI Fest hails itself as the definitive survey of the year’s most significant films. I’m not sure if that makes [...]

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New Preview of Transcendent Man with Director Barry Ptolemy

The Tribeca Film Festival releases daily videos to help viewers get an idea of what happens during their screenings. For [...]

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Video of Kurzweil’s Latest Talk at Google

It’s appropriate that a man who often talks about the democratizing effects of technology can be seen for free on [...]

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Four Singularity Movies – The World Wants the Future

“Will we survive our technology?” – The Singularity Film, 2009 With four films coming out less than a year apart, [...]

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Video Q&A With Ray Kurzweil

On the first day of Singularity University the students and staff were given the opportunity to sit down with Ray [...]

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Kurzweil in the Lyons’ Den

Does the Transcendent Man just want to be a robot? That’s part of the story coming out of Daniel Lyons’ [...]

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Transcendent Man Wows At Tribeca Film Festival Premier

“Does God exist? Well, I would say, ‘Not yet.” —Ray Kurzweil, Transcendent Man, 2009 It’s not every documentary that predicts [...]

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