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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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- Infovox iVox 2.0 (Mac)
- Infovox iVox provides Mac OS X users with the best text-to-speech voices ever on the Mac. You won't believe your ears hearing these natural-sounding voices, available in many different languages. What is more, they can be used in any Mac OS X application that uses speech. The Infovox iVox voices,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Voice, Language, Niemeijer Consult, Infovox iVox, Infovox iVox Voice, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Telecommunications, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists
- Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Infovox iVox 1.3 (Mac)
- Infovox iVox provides Mac OS X users with the best text-to-speech voices ever on the Mac. You won't believe your ears hearing these natural-sounding voices, available in many different languages. What is more, they can be used in any Mac OS X application that uses speech. The Infovox iVox voices,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Voice, Language, AssistiveWare, Infovox iVox, Infovox iVox Voice, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Telecommunications, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-02-23
- The technologies which will change our lives
- The technologies which will change our livesThe real areas of change are nanorobotics and AI.Companies such as Zyvex and Novamente are working on nanomanufacturing and AI and they predict 5 or so years until products are available. Such products would allow for everyone to live disease and aging free,...
- Tags: INTERNET, Semiconductors, Network technology, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-25
- The technologies which will change our lives
- We are at a strange place in this world's history, where the Industrial Revolution is over, and we're in the new technological age. So many things have been discovered over the course of the last and this century, and we're still no closer to reaching a technological...
- Tags: Earth, Multi-touch, Computing, Technology, Microsoft Research, MSR, Rootkits, Internet, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Photos: Advancing machine intelligence
- Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner agrees with Ray Kurzweil's assessment that the "singularity," when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, is nigh. To provide some evidence that technology is moving in that direction, he showed a number of advancements in robotics, communication, and other areas in a keynote Thursday at...
- Tags: Intelligence, Photograph, Intel Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-22
- 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: Open source Singularity
- "If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...
- Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- 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
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