November 5th, 2008 by | 2 Comments
On November 15th and 16th, a remarkable un-conference will take place. Convergence 08 is being hosted at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The event is sponsored by a group of long-term-philanthropy non-profits: The Foresight Institute, Humanity +, Imminst.org, The Singularity Institute, The Long Now Foundation, The Methuselah Foundation, and CyBeRev.
Paul Saffo keynotes, [...]
November 3rd, 2008 by | No Comments
Michael Sean Wright of Nice Fish Films recorded a podcast with me today. Billed as “a discussion with really big thinkers”, we talked about The Singularity Summit and some of my favorite emerging technologies. You can hear the podcast below.
October 31st, 2008 by | No Comments
“I’d pretty much pissed away most of my Whuffie — all the savings from the symphonies and the first three theses — drinking myself stupid at the Gazoo, hogging library terminals, pestering profs, until I’d expended all the respect anyone had ever afforded me.” — Cory Doctorow, Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom, 2003
“There [...]
October 22nd, 2008 by | No Comments
Still considering attending the Singularity Summit this weekend? We’ve got fewer than 50 seats remaining for the main event on Saturday, and the Friday emerging technology workshop is over subscribed. Here is a teaser of what the day will be about. Hope you can join us!
The Singularity Summit
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October 14th, 2008 by | 3 Comments
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 [...]
August 31st, 2008 by Ray Renteria | No Comments
Rodney Brooks had it right in his 1991 paper “Intelligence without Reason.” His approach to Artificial Intelligence is based an emergence of behaviors not explicitly programmed into a system. Instead, a hierarchy of discrete behaviors is organized in such a way that higher-level behaviors subsume the resources required by lower-priority behaviors when appropriate conditions are [...]
August 29th, 2008 by | No Comments
Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
SAN JOSE, CA, August 29, 2008 – Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit [...]
August 28th, 2008 by | No Comments
Press release from Lamar University
Technology innovation in the coming decade will be unlike anything the world has seen, and corporations, small businesses and individuals will have to paddle hard to catch this wave — or they might just be ripped asunder. So says Jonas Lamis, executive director of SciVestor (www.scivestor.com ), a research and [...]
July 2nd, 2008 by | No Comments
SciVestor sat down with Dewey Gaedcke, Founder and CEO of Minggl.com. He discusses the future of the social grid, how Moore’s Law is powering Web 2.0, and why companies and investors should care about Minggl.
May 20th, 2008 by | No Comments
SciVestor sat down with Doug Lenat, AI pioneer, founder and CEO of Cycorp. He discusses how Cycorp might change the world in the next 10 years, why Moore’s Law is important, and why businesses should be interested in AI. View the video here: http://scivestor.blip.tv/#926947