Is Genius Immortal?

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Chris Faraone from the Boston Phoenix recently wrote a very interesting and detailed article on Ray Kurzweil and his quest to live forever titled Is Genius Immortal?. You can read the whole article by following the link above, but if like me you prefer audio rather than text, then you can go and listen to or simply grab the full podcast of the exclusive interview with Ray Kurzweil by clicking here: Is Genius Immortal? the full podcast by the Boston Phoenix. Enjoy the podcast but do let me know what is your answer to Chris’ question: Is genius immortal? Related articles by Zemanta Ray Kurzweil on Brain-Computer Interfaces (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com) James Harvey’s Singularia: a “Both/And” Point of View of the Singularity (Part 1) (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com) Singularity University: Ray Kurzweil’s Opening Address (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)

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Turning into Gods (concept teaser)

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Turning into Gods is the next concept teaser trailer in a long line of documentaries looking at our technological journey from being mere mortal humans to allegedly becoming immortal gods. Some of the other previously posted documentaries examining the the topic of how technology may provide the means to immortality can be watched in full and include titles such as Human V2.0: Making Gods, Building Gods, Beyond Human, TechnoCalyps, Do you Want to Live Forever, Transcendent Man and the Singularity is Near. Here is the Vimeo movie description about Turning into Gods: “First we build the tools, then they build us” (Marshall McLuhan) TURNING INTO GODS is a new feature length documentary exploring mankind’s journey to ‘play jazz with the universe’… it is a story of our ultimate potential, the reach of our intelligence, the scope of our scientific and [...]

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Singularia: a “Both/And” Point of View of the Singularity (Part 1)

by James Harvey
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Here, at the Singularity Weblog, Socrates asks: “Will technology replace biology?” An obviously rhetorical question, with an apparent answer, depending upon which side of the debate you may find yourself. But yet this presents a valid point for enquiry given the extraordinary predictions being made by Ray Kurzweil (and other transhumanists) for an approaching Technological Singularity. Certainly, the question is not new. In contrast to the enthusiastic promotion for AI there also exists a growing dystopian vision of Artificial Intelligence which has inspired entire industries of science fiction literature from Frankenstein to I Robot with recent transformations, through further technological innovations, into the block buster films starring: HAL, Agent Smith, Terminator and Blade Runner. All asking the question: Will our machines still love us when they are smarter than we are? (Are we going to eventually produce artificial machine intelligences [...]

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Software Wars: The Terminator Picks Windows

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Ever hear about the raging software wars? There is a war out there. When it comes to software it is a dog eat dog world. Large scale conflict between different operating systems or manufacturers thereof has been a constant part of the technological landscape of the past 30 years. Moreover, in the last decade the conflict has steadily been broadening from the traditional PC vs Mac to one including more and more participants, each more eager than the next one to raid your pockets for any software dollars. There are many ways to slice the Software Wars but some of the most obvious ones must be: Windows vs Mac OS vs Linux vs Andoroid Apple (and recently Microsoft) vs. Adobe‘s Flash Player Yahoo vs Bing vs Google Symbian vs Mac vs Backberry vs Palm vs Android Paid vs Free Proprietery [...]

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Google Health Care

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This video, called Google Health Care, is another hilarious clip from Burnistoun. I hope it brightens up your weekend. While it may be a joke it raises a number of important issues about the rise of Google in particular and technology in general. For example, asking whether we over-use and over-rely on technology is no joke. Some other important issues that have previously been discussed here are: The future of the internet and its impact? Does technology make us smart or stupid? Is the internet killing our culture? I hope you laugh today and, maybe later, think about the issues seriously. Thus, eventually, you can have your say because the people who get to make the decisions obviously need  more of your input. Cheers!

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What is Rocket Racing?

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Rocket Racing League (RRL) is a revolutionary new sports and entertainment franchise where teams of highly trained military and test pilots such as former “Top Gun” graduates from the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School, fly rocket-powered aircraft through a 3D virtual Raceway-In-The-Sky (RITS). To be held at venues across the country, Rocket Racing will feature multiple rocket races, from closed circuit to drag-style racing, pitting 2 to 10 Rocket Racer aircraft roaring head to head for victory. The closed circuit format is planned to be a 4-lap multiple elimination heat on a 5-mile Formula One style raceway in the Sky. The drag style race will feature two Rocket Racers in drag-style side-by-side format. Exhibitions flights and demonstrations are planned to continue in 2010-2011. In the first video Peter Diamandis, co-founder and chairman of Singularity University, founder of the X-Prize foundation and [...]

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Dennis Hong at TED: My 7 Species of Robots

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Dennis Hong: “I still cannot forget the mind-blowing sensation when I first watched the movie Star Wars. I was fascinated by R2D2 and C-3PO. Since then, I decided to become a robot scientist and never changed my mind.” As his TED profile page says, Dennis Hong is the founder and director of RoMeLa — a Virginia Tech robotics lab that has pioneered several breakthroughs in robot design and engineering. As director of a groundbreaking robotics lab, Dennis Hong guides his team of students through projects on robot locomotion and mechanism design, creating award-winning humanoid robots like DARwIn (Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence). His team is known as RoMeLa  (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) and operates at Virginia Tech. Hong has also pioneered various innovations in soft-body robots, using a “whole-skin locomotion” as inspired by amoebae. Marrying robotics with biochemistry, he has [...]

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Form Constant: Dancing with Science

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This dance clip titled Form Constant is a collaboration between dancer and choreographer Hope Goldman and her partner, visual artist and programmer Andrew Moffat. It was performed live in March 2010 in the Studio Dance 1 Concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts as Goldman’s Master’s thesis show. To perform the real-time tracking and effects, the piece uses infrared lighting and a custom-modded, $40 webcam along with custom software running on the GPU. The choreography was influenced by the ideas of fluid dynamics and the energetic quality of the imagery. Music by Ben Frost. Enjoy! Related articles by Zemanta Modern dance inspired by science (boingboing.net)

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