Articles tagged "singularity"

To Itskov, the project is less about escaping death and more about letting people enjoy more life.

This is the next step towards some really cool consumer electronics. Or robo-dominion. Either way.

The only things we have to fear.

Barring the arrival of a certain laconic Austrian killing machine, he just might be our best bet.

The hiring of the foremost futurist around signals that Google is ready to bring on the singularity.

Matthew Deutsch is a singular teenager. He is not only afraid of dying, but he’s made plans to put his brain on ice after he does so that he might be revived in the future.

Our friend "Jason Silva":http://motherboard.vice.com/search/posts?keyword=silva&commit=Search - the futurist media personality, model, death-hater, likely cryonics / cyborg candidate - recently spoke at Lucid NYC with a couple of his recent videos ab…

Whether it's an iPad or an Apple IIe, generations raised on computers always seem to exhibit a fascinating, unquestioning acceptance of the computer's role in their lives. Even when they can't adequately articulate it, there is some sense that childr…

Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singularity—a point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology.

Like all writers, I welcome death, because if you ask me, life is a lot more trouble than it’s worth. But if you’re not like me--waiting for unending oblivion while you blog about cats for 25 cents a word--then perhaps this will excite you. We’re…

The robots are coming. To the movies. To register their arrival and explore our bonds with them, Heather Knight, the charming roboticist "we met at the H+ Summit":http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/7/7/social-roboticist-heather-knight-wants-you-to-hug-yo…

The Singularity is near, but nearer are two documentaries about it. Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and godfather of biological transcendence, "has made his own":http://www.singularity.com/themovie/index.php; another one, about Kurzweil's life, ""Transcen…

This week marks the 15th anniversary of Garry Kasperov's monumental match against "Deep Blue":http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/, in which computers most famously schooled humans at chess. And it's the 14th anniversary of the would-have-been remat…

If you haven't already downloaded the article into your brain, "the Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print blew the cover on the trans-humanist movement this weekend, just as a bunch of the