2009 SINGULARITY SUMMIT
September 29, 2009
by ALEX DUNBAR
Remember back a few months ago when we did that interview with Ray Kurzweil about the Singularity? Well, we’ve still got another three decades at least before a legion of nano-bots and demi-godlike machines with artificial general intelligence solve our increasingly insurmountable problems, but in the meantime learn about the coming age of spiritual machines at the 2009 Singularity Summit Speakers include anti-aging advocate Aubrey de Grey, math-whiz/Thunderdomer David Chalmers, and the man himself, Ray Kurzweil. It should be a good time if you like meeting interesting people and talking about fascinating, mind-expanding stuff that inspires hope for the future. If you’re not into that sort of thing I think there’s an I Shouldn’t Be Alive marathon on Animal Planet.
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3 months ago
wahwahwuh: k=Kurzweil is really treading the fine line between genius and psychopath... his TED lectures are seriously a tightrope walk. But, I think it's good that we are talking about him here. Just kinda scary when it all comes down to it. More uplifting than 2012 theories for sure.
5 months ago
JenB: Reminds me of Mr. Manhattan
5 months ago
louisvillescrubber: i think i might have to make this my avatar. may i ask where you found this?
5 months ago
dunbar: sure thing: it's the trade paperback cover of William Gibson's novel Burning Chrome
5 months ago
sassafras: does he even count as "the man" anymore?
5 months ago
yeehawmoolah: i'll think about going if you promise kurzweil doesn't perform as cindy or whatever his alter ego is.
5 months ago
whiteonrice: i think you need to take out that cartridge, blow in it, and try again.
5 months ago
augustiniak: haha, oh the good old days of nintendo. i'll take the five button rectangular controller over that stupid wii stick any day.
5 months ago
mcsquiggles: ooooh... max headroomy!
5 months ago
everlastinggobstopper: i would go only to see kurzweil's eerily orange and leathery skin.
5 months ago