Tag Archives: Singularity

New Video Humorously Imagines Life In The Singularity And All Its Potential Legal Woes

What will post-Singularity life be like in 2052 if you died and your mind was uploaded to a computer? Possibly [...]

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Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy

For four years, nearly 200 high school students in Dallas voluntarily allowed every text, email, and IM to be monitored. That [...]

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The Singularity Summit Videos – A Treasure Trove For Futurist Geeks (video)

The Singularity Summit 2011 took place in New York this past October 15th and 16th. Once again the meeting was [...]

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Reminder: Transcendent Man Movie Blowout Tonight – Ray Kurzweil, Steve Wozniak, Michio Kaku, and Many More!

**This article was originally posted on July 14th, but we’re reposting it today to remind everyone that the event is [...]

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The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence

Like many of you I grew up reading science fiction, and to me Isaac Asimov was a god of the [...]

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Kurzweil’s Talk At Presidential Conference in Israel Now Available for Free (video)

If at first you don’t succeed in convincing the world that a Technological Singularity is near then try, try again. [...]

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Bilbo Baggins is Back-Filming of The Hobbit Movie Begins!

Are you ready to go back to Middle Earth? Be sure, lad. Once we begin our journey, there’s no turning [...]

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TIME Magazine Shines a Spotlight on Kurzweil, The Singularity

This is a good week to be Ray Kurzweil. The noted inventor, author, and futurist turns 63 on Saturday, and [...]

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The Law Of Futurology

In pretty much all walks of life, humans are prone to making their theories and ideas conform to their own [...]

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John Horgan Criticizes Kurzweil and the Singularity…We Need Better Critics

If you believe in the concept of the Singularity, does that mean you belong to a techno-cult? Is Ray Kurzweil [...]

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Singularity University Releases Inspirational Must Watch Video

Earlier this week Singularity University kicked off its second annual summer Graduate Studies Program 2010 (GSP 2010) with an impressive [...]

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Singularity University Launches Class of 2010 With Opening Ceremony

Monday evening Singularity Hub was in attendance as Singularity University hosted the opening ceremonies to officially welcome a class of [...]

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New York Times Hearts Singularity, Hub Featured

The Singularity meme gained some huge press this weekend with a piece in the New York Times titled In the [...]

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Web 3.0 – A Short Documentary About The Future Of The Web

To catch a glimpse of the accelerating trends that will bring us to the singularity look no further than the [...]

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2010 Humanity+ Summit At Harvard To Feature Kurzweil Keynote

The day is fast approaching when genetic engineering and computational implants will allow humans to become something more than human [...]

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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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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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Singularity University Promo Video Is Pretty Sweet

Singularity University recently released a highlight video of its recently completed 9 week summer session. The video represents just a [...]

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Helping 1 Billion People in Under Ten Years – Singularity U Completes Inaugural Year

Today marks the final day of the inaugural 9 week summer session of Singularity University, and what a finish it [...]

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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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Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

Prominent New York Times reporter John Markoff just came out with a story titled “Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man” [...]

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Singularity Summit 2009 In New York October 3-4

In a radical shift from previous years, the  fourth annual Singularity Summit is slated to take place October 3-4 in [...]

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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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Highlights From Day One At Singularity University

Yesterday was the first day of the Singularity University summer session.  I was at the NASA Ames campus throughout the [...]

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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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