Category: De toekomst
Our Final Invention – James Barrat
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Singularity 1 on 1: James Barrat on Our Final Invention For 20 years James Barrat has created documentary films for National Geographic, the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel and public television. In 2000, d...
Inside the Zeitgeist Revolution | Exclusive Interview with Peter Joseph
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Abby Martin speaks with Peter Joseph, founder to the Zeitgeist Movement about the philosophy behind the organization, the unsustainability of the current economic system and the model proposed by the movement for a su...
Turing Test dismissed – George Dvorsky
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As many reported yesterday, a chatbot has passed the Turing Test, though under some very convenient conditions. The announcement has led some to declare that the age of AI is finally here, but that's nonsense. Here's ...
Book: WWW Trilogy – Robert J. Sawyer
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Review of WWW Trilogy, by Kron Kyrios This review is from: WWW: Wake (Hardcover) Personally, I see this as one long story, and would not recommend simply reading any one or two volumes of this trilogy. Therefore, ...
Is Femtotech Alien Techology? – Hugo de Garis
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Femtotech: Computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^-15 meter) scale. I’ve been thin...
Human v2.0
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There is a moment in the near future that scientist believe will transform the notion on WHAT it is to be HUMAN.
The Perils of Prediction: Ben Goertzel, Lawrence Krauss, Steve Omohundro
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Panel near the end of the Singularity Summit Australia 2011 on the Perils of Prediction (well the benefits as well - excuse the catchy title). Lawrence Krauss , Steve Omohundro and Ben Goertzel set sail on an epic ad...
Reverse Aging = Compassion
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Michael Fossel‘s dream is to reverse human aging and since 1996 he has been a strong and vocal advocate of experimenting with telomerase therapy as a potential way of intervention in a wide variety of medical conditio...
David Pearce – H. G. Wells Utopia
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Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Well's The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. "That which does not...
THE AI REVOLUTION: THE ROAD TO SUPERINTELLIGENCE
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(AI topic starts at 28:50) Tim dug into research on Artificial Intelligence. He could not believe what he was reading. It hit him pretty quickly that what’s happening in the world of AI is not just an important topic,...
Interview with Greg Bear on Science Fiction, Singularity
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Quote: “…The people who are changing the world read science fiction.” “In a sense, science fiction is history in reverse…” Greg Bear is truly one of the masters of classic science fiction – he has written over 35 ...
Radical life extension and biological immortality – The Immortalist – Jason Silva
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A MEDITATION ON THE WILL TO BECOME IMMORTAL... a love letter to science and philosophy that explores the idea of engineered radical life extension and biological immortality featuring Ray Kurzweil among others... by J...