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Outside
April 2007 |
To the Victor Peter Diamandis will pay you to save the planet.   |
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. |
PC Magazine
June 15, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Beyond The Brain Entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil believes the hardware and software necessary for computers to operate at a human level is in the near future. |
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
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... |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2005 |
Bits & Bites v24n21 Yahoo! has teamed up to provide free digitized books online... Sun Microsystems and Google plan to collaborate around Java... Ray Kurzweil's new book The Singularity Is Near suggests technology will soon surpass human intelligence... |
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. |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Steve Cooper |
Eye on the Prize Are you trying to develop the next big thing? Enlist help from bright minds outside your company by throwing in a prize. |
Wired
June 2006
Adam Rogers |
The Challenger When Peter Diamandis gave the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the SpaceShipOne crew in 2004, he did more than build excitement about private space travel. |
Fast Company
March 2005
Ryan Underwood |
60 Seconds on Doing the Impossible Peter Diamandis, the aerospace engineer and medical doctor, who created suborbital space competition, talks about the moon and nanotechnology. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008
Steve LeVine |
Can X Prizes Spur Innovation? Contests such as Peter Diamandis' X Prizes offer big purses for breakthrough ideas. But can prize money do more to stimulate innovation than existing incentives? |
Fast Company
January 2006
Michael A. Prospero |
Fuel for Thought Philanthropist Peter Diamandis' $10 million X Prize proved that money can drive big ideas. Now he's looking for more of them in other fields, from nanotech to education. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
July 12, 2006 |
Forever Young The blog Biosingularity discusses the impact that the convergence of biology and nanotechnology will have. |
Wired
September 13, 2007
Spencer Reiss |
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Glenn Zorpette |
Waiting for the Rapture The singularity is supposed to begin shortly after engineers build the first computer with greater-than-human intelligence. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2009
Joe Robinson |
Is it Really Innovation? Peter Diamandis talks about what innovation really is while Tim O'Reilly calls the I-word era "dead on arrival." |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Nancy Weil |
Can Humans Build Conscious Machines? Will machines ever be capable of human intelligence? That's ultimately a matter for philosophers, not scientists, to decide, two of today's top technology minds agreed during a recent debate at MIT. |
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 |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Tech's Most Dangerous Idea Venture capitalists, angel investors, and even corporate investors such as Google have every right to protect themselves and their limited partners from unsteady, volatile markets. But they ought to be able to do so without shifting risk to entrepreneurs. |
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. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006 |
Now You See Me . . . Futurist Ray Kurzweil has been awarded U.S. patent No. 7,084,874, titled Virtual Reality Presentation, for his technology used to simulate the presence of a speaker at an event. |
