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Popular Mechanics
October 5, 2009
Glenn Derene |
What Does a Beer Taste Like After the Singularity? Even if we accepted that it was possible to digitize the broad, ever-evolving spectrum that is human intelligence, add your own consciousness to it and then accelerate the heck out of it, what would the point be, exactly?   |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Gary Wolf |
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity The famous inventors lifetime goal is to travel across a frontier in time, to pass through the border between our era and a future without human life. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Stephen Cass |
Film Review: The Singularity Will humans and machines merge? Doug Wolens's latest documentary, released 1 November, captures the argument between the two sides. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Mark Anderson |
Never Mind the Singularity, Here's the Science Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009 |
The Singularity Is Coming--Now What? For some time now, futurists have been talking about a concept called the Singularity, a technological jump so big that society will be transformed. |
Reason
May 2007
Mike Godwin |
Superhuman Imagination Mathematician, computer scientist, and novelist Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and a "convergence" of technological trends that threaten to drastically limit individual freedom. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006 |
Robots Can Ape Us, But Will They Ever Get Real? One of the most profound questions of engineering, arguably, is whether we will ever create human-level consciousness in a machine. In the meantime, robots continue to take tiny little bot steps in the direction of faux humanity. |
Reason
April 2005
Kenneth Silber |
Are We Just Really Smart Robots? Two books on the mind put the human back into human beings: On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee... Mind: A Brief Introduction, by John R. Searle... |
Wired
April 2001
Paul Boutin |
Kurzweil's Law Change is accelerating. And so is the acceleration. Say good-bye to the future as we know it... |
Bio-IT World
May 2006
John Russell |
Kurzweil: Life Is the Fast Lane Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil's opening keynote at the Bio-IT World Life Sciences Conference + Expo painted an optimistic vision of a world governed by growing information technologies that will transform what it means to be human. |
Science News
April 25, 2009
Bruce Bower |
Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, And Other Lessons From The Biology Of Consciousness By Alva Noe In his new book, the University of California, Berkeley philosopher offers an often thought-provoking explanation of why neuroscientists won't make headway in understanding conscious experience until they drop their brain-a-centric attitudes. |
Reason
May 2008
Ronald Bailey |
'Technology Is at the Center' Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel speaks on liberty and scientific progress. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Michelle Press |
Scientific American Reviews: Why You Are Not Your Brain Also: books on monks and monkeys and miraculous anticipation |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Harry Goldstein |
California Dreamin' While archrival Microsoft hemorrhages cash and employees, Google is mapping out its plan for benevolent world domination. |
Inc.
September 1, 2002
Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Chris Hardwick |
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University Nine weeks of deep thought with eminent theorists and business leaders. |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Otis Port |
Raymond C. Kurzweil: Prophet Of Longevity Inventor-entrepreneur-author Raymond C. Kurzweil believes that by 2030, biomedical technology will allow us to halt the body's aging process and rejuvenate tired cells. He laid out several predictions that have proven successful in his book, Fantastic Voyage; another book is due in September. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
John Rennie |
Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism His stunning prophecies have earned him a reputation as a tech visionary, but many of them don't look so good on close inspection |
Wired
June 2002 |
View Has the evolution of H. sapiens stopped? |
