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| Kurzweil & Grossman Longevity Products Website
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| posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007
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The advice Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D. offer on how to keep
your body optimally healthy -- from what to put into it (“Food and
Water,” chapter 4) to how to fine-tune it (“Stress and Balance,”
chapter 22) -- will enable you to determine your own specific health
status and teach you how to take effective corrective action when
necessary. The rewards are considerable...
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| Updates From Stanford Singularity Conference
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| posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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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 cutting poverty and
disease On the software side, 10 to the 16th calculations per second
should be sufficient to reach human level intelligence. and bridging
the digital divide -- but only through the scale the new technologies
will bring...
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| The Singularity Summit at Stanford
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| posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006
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The Symbolic Systems Program and CSLI are pleased to host the
Singularity Summit at Stanford, a rare gathering of thinkers to explore
the rising impact of science and technology on society. The summit has
been organized to further the understanding of a controversial idea --
the singularity scenario.
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| Why Is The Universe Life-Friendly?
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| posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006
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Why is the universe life-friendly? Columbia physicist Brian Greene says
it's the deepest question in all of science. Cosmologist Paul Davies
agrees, calling it the biggest of the Big Questions.
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| Ray Kurzweil: Reinventing Humanity
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| posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next
40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden
explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research
and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no
distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between
physical and virtual reality.
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| Ray Kurzweil's Plan for Cheating Death
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| posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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A cure for aging may be found in the next fifty years. The trick now is
to live long enough to be there when it happens. In his two new books,
Ray Kurzweil has painted a clear picture of the future and provided a
blueprint for how to get there.
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| Ubiquity Interviews Ray Kurzweil About 'The Singularity'
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| posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006
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First of all, there's the idea that technology in general is
accelerating rapidly, and information technology in particular is
doubling its power, as measured in price performance and bandwidth
capacity, every year. We will see the power of information technology
multiplied by a factor of a billion in 25 years. If you imagine
increasing the power of computers for the same price, computation,
communication, as well as our knowledge of biology, and knowledge of
intelligence processes in the brain, by a factor of a billion in 25
years, it's quite a formidable result.
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| Ray Kurzweil's Dangerous Idea
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| posted on Friday, January 20, 2006
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My dangerous idea is the near-term inevitability of radical life
extension and expansion. The idea is dangerous, however, only when
contemplated from current linear perspectives.
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