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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.   |
PC World
December 2004
Tom Spring |
Three Minutes With Ray Kurzweil Visionary tells how biotechnology and nanotechnology will extend human life spans into near immortality. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
April 2000
Bill Joy |
Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. |
Reason
June 2000
Virginia Postrel |
Joy, to the World A techno-celebrity's childish manifesto - Wired Magazine's hype machine came roaring back with the April cover story--a long, long, long think piece by the hip software genius Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. |
Wired
July 2000 |
Rants & Raves Bill Joy's cover story on the dangers posed by developments in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics ("Why the Future Doesn't Need Us," Wired 8.04) struck a deep cultural nerve. Instantly. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Lucas Graves |
15th Anniversary: Why the Future Still Needs Us a While Longer Genetics, nanotech, and robotics are no longer as scary as they once were. |
Popular Mechanics
September 4, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Hollywood Reality Check: The Real Science of Brain Puppetry Daryl Kipke, director of the Center for Neural Communication Technology at the University of Michigan, sees neural interface technology keeping pace with robotics, with each field bootstrapping the other |
Wired
June 2002 |
View Has the evolution of H. sapiens stopped? |
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 22, 2009
Chris Hardwick |
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University Nine weeks of deep thought with eminent theorists and business leaders. |
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. |
Salon.com
February 25, 2002
John Glassie |
Flesh, robots and God Are they becoming us or are we becoming them? One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood... |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2002
Jill Jusko |
The Robot Evolution MIT's Rodney A. Brooks is among researchers leading the charge to develop a smarter and more useful artificial creature. |
Reason
May 2008
Ronald Bailey |
'Technology Is at the Center' Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel speaks on liberty and scientific progress. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The Uncertain Future For Social Robots Humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction. Today, experts caution against a more insidious threat: We might like living with them too much. |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004 |
The Nanotechnology Winter Future generations of the tiny mechanical devices described by the terms "microelectro-mechanical systems" and "nano-electromechanical systems" are full of amazing possibilities. |
Reason
December 2003
Ronald Bailey |
The Smaller the Better The limitless promise of nanotechnology -- and the growing peril of a moratorium. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Ray Kurzweil The author, inventor, and futurist says accelerating technology will soon bring us immortality -- and all the energy the earth requires |
Salon.com
June 21, 2001
Dan Dinello |
We, robots! From Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" to Steven Spielberg's "A.I.," the line between man and machine has never been clear... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer R2-D2 and Rosie the robot maid may be coming soon to a home, or nursing home, near you. Thanks to advances in computing and navigation technology, robots -- including sophisticated robot toys and appliances -- are now being developed to serve people directly. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Reason
March 2008
Todd Seavey |
Neither Gods Nor Goo Avoiding both Utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown MIT debuts Nexi, a robot with facial expressions. |
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... |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2011
Eric Spitznagel |
The Robot in the Next Cubicle The new wave of robots for sale is aimed squarely at the office market. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008 |
The Next 25 Years in Tech We've enlisted industry leaders as well as our own analysts and editors to share their fascinating visions of tomorrow's computing technology. |
Food Processing
September 2009
Ronald Wernette |
Nanotechnology Coming to Your Store The current number of food products using nanotechnology is relatively small. Nevertheless, hundreds of research projects are under way and tens of millions of dollars are being spent in a global race to apply nanotechnologies in food production, processing and packaging. |
PC Magazine
July 12, 2006 |
Forever Young The blog Biosingularity discusses the impact that the convergence of biology and nanotechnology will have. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Robots Revolution The arrival of robots at General Motors Corp. in 1961 brought the promise of flexible automation. Today's advances in research offer robots the chance to reach their full industrial potential. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Are Intuitive Surgical and iRobot Just Babies? Robotic technology is still in the early stages of its development, and it will only get better. The best time for investors to jump in is when that company is young. |
Fast Company
April 2005
Lucas Conley |
60 Seconds with Ray Kurzweil Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil has been alive 56 years. In that time, he has invented a reading machine for the blind, built orchestra-quality music synthesizers, and pioneered speech-recognition technology. |
