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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.   |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2003 |
Bits & Bytes Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts we will have reading machines within a few years that are not just sitting on a desk, but are tiny devices you put in your pocket, enabling blind people to read anywhere... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced a string of new security initiatives... etc. |
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. |
Wired
June 2002 |
View Has the evolution of H. sapiens stopped? |
PC Magazine
July 12, 2006 |
Forever Young The blog Biosingularity discusses the impact that the convergence of biology and nanotechnology will have. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
Kurzweil 1000 Version 9 Focused on helping blind and low-vision learners read, Kurzweil 1000 Version 9 by Kurzweil Education Systems makes printed pages and electronic archives more accessible and usable for visually impaired readers. |
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. |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006 |
Speak To Me The National Federation for the Blind (NFB) and inventor/author Ray Kurzweil have announced a new reading tool for the Blind. |
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. |
