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- Kurzweil: 'Exponential' change ahead for games, people
- Kurzweil: 'Exponential' change ahead for games, peopleA Public Thank You....As the IS&T Manager for NMSBVI (20 years) I would like to thanks Ray Kruzweil for bring the world of print to the blind and visually impaired. The innovation of text-to-speech and the use of OCR has brought the printed...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, Kurzweil, computer, hardware, software, Exponential Technology, game
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Nanotech and immortality
- Nanotech and immortalityFoolish flies fought with flypaper and lost.Kurzwiel's point is: If life were intelligently designed; living things would work efficiently and with sustainable perfection. Since none do; there is not, nor has there ever been, a designer of life: intelligent or otherwise. Read the book and listen to his...
- Tags: Kurzweil, theory, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- Nanotech and immortality
- From the "out of left field" department, I've been finishing up my reading of Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near," a book I bought over eight months ago and hadn't got around to finishing yet. In my defense, at 651 pages and with enough cross-disiplinary technical...
- Tags: Kurzweil, cell, Richard Smalley
- Blog posts 2006-08-29
- Singularity: Technology, spirituality and the close box
- Ray Kurzweil responded to various critiques and questions, and stuck to his PowerPoint slides of datapoints that convey his Singularity theory. He emphasized that because of the accelerating pace of change, technology will be able to solve all problems, from the practical problems of climate change and energy efficiency to...
- Tags: Kurzweil, Singularity
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- The great Singularity debate
- Saturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus. Very orderly and probably not very comfortable for the panelists who don't...
- Tags: Kurzweil, Singularity
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- Ray Kurzweil accelerates change at weekend confab
- This past weekend Stanford University hosted the Accelerating Change 2005 conference, bringing together visionaries, academics, and forward-thinking executives to share thoughts on Artificial intelligence AI—in the broadest sense of the word—and Intelligence amplification IA, which, according to the conference Website, "empowers human beings and their social, political, and economic environments."...
- Tags: Kurzweil
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- Kurzweil's Kurves map death of PCs, complete reverse-engineering of the brain, and Matrix-like virtual reality
- I've spent the last few days digesting a presentation given at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference by optical character recognition/speech recognition legend and National Inventors Hall of Famer Ray Kurzweil. Not looking at it. Just thinking about it. Kurzweil spent the better part of his presentation download the PowerPoint slides here showing...
- Tags: Kurzweil
- Blog posts 2004-10-05
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- Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive
- Engineering the 10 TB notebook driveEvery 2 years?"Disk capacities double about every 2 years"It's possible you're right but I just got my 300 GB drive because prices dropped when the 500 GB drive came out about 6 months later a 1 TB drive came out. That was over a span...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage management, TB notebook, disk, SATA II, GB Drive, platter, storage, NAS, hard drive, EIDE, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web
- Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century“Norvig doesn’t expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn’t seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Singularity Summit 2007: On the machinations of the beautiful mind
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Machine, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species
- Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence AI. As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Singularity Summit 2007, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?
- The fate of the human species depends on AI Artificial Intelligence entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Live forever coming soon says Ray Kurzweil...are we already in the Singularity?
- Live forever coming soon says Ray Kurzweil...are we already in the Singularity?The Graphs are right....so farI too have been following Ray's theory on the Singularity (read: Law of Accelerating Returns for whole theory) as well as Vinge and others.It is interesting to note that one of Ray's charts shows the...
- Tags: Singularity, Live Forever, Ray Kurzweil
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- Live forever coming soon says Ray Kurzweil...are we already in the Singularity?
- The Singularity is coming--Ray shows his graphs (Oct.2005) I caught Ray Kurzweil's lecture recently, which had many provocative ideas and many many very similar graphs--all steeply angled upwards.The man takes 225 micronutrient pills per day, according tothe introduction by Stewart Brand, the legendary media innovator and community builder (The...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Stargates and time travel
- Stargates and time travelAnother angle.Let's say for a moment that the wormhole thing isn't workable and that the speed of light really is a drop dead barrier to travel. So advanced civilizations could communicate but not visit. Now, let's further assume that they do in fact use electro-magnetic...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Games, Now Let, SETI, radio, civilization
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Stargates and time travel
- I have a habit of reading multiple books at one time. Well, to be precise, I only read one book at a time, but I'll put one down after reading part of it and start on another. Shorter books might grab my attention, and I'll read them all...
- Tags: Offbeat
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0)
- Nova Spivack of Radar Networks maps out his view of the evolution of the Web over the next 25 years. Nova said he isnt sure about exact dates or technologies on the top end of the map, but his view of ten-year blocks to fully evolve each phase is realistic....
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Best business and technology books of 2006
- Last week, I reported what retailers were saying about what the hot gifts this year, as well as some ideas of my own. Giving the gift of a good read is a great option for family and friends, but particularly for colleagues who you have to think with every day.The...
- Tags: marketing, Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
- Forecasting the next 50 years in science
- In the recent issue of the New Scientist, 70 very smart people predict the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the next 50 years. The topics range from the evolution of consciousness and the universal theory of everything to implantable, organo-electrical brain-machine interfaces and the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In the computing...
- Tags: forecasting, human brain, computer
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- China's growing respect for IP
- A little over a year ago I wrote a blog post about China and intellectual property where I noted that a tremendous barrier to local development of IP was rampant lack of respect for it in the country. Piracy, in other words, didn't just deprive...
- Tags: western country, pie, intellectual property
- Blog posts 2006-08-08
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