Brains, Bots and Bodies

When I think about the future of the internet and “Web 3.0″, I generally don’t dwell on haptic displays or fully-immersive virtual worlds. Rather I think about the Do Button.  I’ve given a series of talks this year on emerging technologies that will change the world, and one of the main topics covered [...]

Today’s keynote at the Singularity Summit was Peter Norvig, Director of Research from Google. His talk was titled The History and Future of Technological Change, and he couched his presentation as an analysis of “how to evaluate technical change”.
This is the first time I have heard Norvig speak, and I found his talk to [...]

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Scifoo: Google and large scientific datasets ? business|bytes|genes|molecules

“Every hour there was at least one session I wished I could have attended, but the one I will single out here is “Give us your Data! Google’s effort to archive and distribute the world’s scientific datasets” by Noel Gorelick (formerly of NASA and now at Google). For a conference on the future of biology, [...]

One of the premises promoted by Singularity University is that we have to make it easier to connect researchers across disciplines. Innovation - especially that focused on bringing about The Singularity - needs to happen across domains, and the increasing narrowness of expertise of a given researcher is necessary, yet counter productive to that goal.
Consequently, [...]