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| Ray Kurzweil On Exponential Technologies
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| posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008
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At the recent World Science Festival in New York City, Ray Kurzweil
outlined why he is certain that the future isn’t as dreary as it’s been
painted, and why we are closer to the incredible than we think:
Exponential upward curves can be deceptively gradual in the beginning.
But when things start happening, they happen fast. Here are a selection
of his predicted trajectories for these “miracles” based on his
educated assessment of where science and technology is at in the
present.
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| IEEE Spectrum's Special Report: The Singularity
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| posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008
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Across cultures, classes, and aeons, people have yearned to transcend death. Bear that history in mind as you consider the creed of the
singularitarians. Many of them fervently believe that in the next
several decades we’ll have computers into which you’ll be able to
upload your consciousness -- the mysterious thing that makes you you.
Then, with your consciousness able to go from mechanical body to
mechanical body, or virtual paradise to virtual paradise, you’ll never
need to face death, illness, bad food, or poor cellphone reception.
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| Kurzweil: Expect Exponential Progress
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| posted on Monday, May 05, 2008
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology was so advanced in 1965 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 less expensive, and a thousand
times more powerful. That's a billionfold increase in the amount of
computation you can buy per dollar.
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| The 14 Grand Engineering Challenges Of The 21st Century
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| posted on Monday, February 18, 2008
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The panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists included Google
co-founder Larry Page and genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter. They spent
more than a year pondering how best to improve life on Earth and came
up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges, a list the National Academy of
Engineering <http://vivo.aaas.org/> deemed so momentous it should
be capitalized.
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| Movie: 'The Singularity Is Near'
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| posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007
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The Singularity is Near, A True Story about the Future, based on Ray
Kurzweil’s New York Times best selling book, will be a full-length
motion picture slated for theatrical release in Spring 2008.
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| Could We Live Forever?
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| posted on Friday, November 16, 2007
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Consider how life expectancy has increased over the last two centuries.
An average man born in 1800 had a life expectancy of 35 years. In 1900,
he would have made it all the way to 47. By 1950, average life
expectancy was up to 68 years, and now it’s up to 78. The trend is definitely favorable. But how far can we take it?
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| Real Superhumans & The Quest For The Future Fantastic
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| posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007
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In this special two-hour presentation, "The Real Superhumans and the
Quest for the Future Fantastic," witness the amazing stories of real
people with extraordinary super powers. But just who are these "super
humans?" In Switzerland, meet a woman who combines senses so that she
can "taste" music; in Turkey, a painter compared with Renaissance
master Brunelleschi, who has been blind since birth; in Germany, a man
discovered one day that he can perform complex calculations in his
mind; and in the Netherlands, a man who possesses the inexplicable
power to withstand extreme cold -- but how? These super powers seemingly
transcend what it means to be human, how we use our natural senses and
our physical limitations.
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| The Plan For Eternal Life (Includes Video-Taped Interviews)
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| posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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This is the opening session of the ninth annual meeting of the World
Transhumanist Association (WTA)
in Chicago. Sandberg and his fellow transhumanists plan to bypass death
by using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), genetic
engineering and nanotechnology to radically accelerate human evolution,
eventually merging people with machines to make us immortal. This may
not be possible yet, the transhumanists reason, but as long as they
live long enough -- a few decades perhaps -- the technology will surely
catch up.
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