Ray Kurzweil Reinvents the Book…

An e-reader killer app? A Kindle killer?

Click here for the full report found on Wired.com.

Click here for my recent Kindle post.

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Happy New Year to All - with much more accelerating change!

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Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months…

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Below is a copy of the recent email sent out to prospective students -

Happy Holidays!

Earlier this year, Peter Diamandis and I organized a really amazing institution called Singularity University (SU) headquartered at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley. SU was established with the support of Google, ePlanet Ventures, Autodesk and a dozen Associate Founders. SU runs a graduate/post-graduate program every summer. We also run an incredible 9-day “Executive Program” (EP).

Our 9-day EP is designed for entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists, and government leaders from around the world. The program concentrates on six exponential growing technologies: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces, Networks & Computing Systems, and Energy & Environmental Systems. Attending the program gives you an understanding of how these accelerating technologies will transform your business and your industry by showing you what is in the lab today and where the technologies will be in 5 and 10 years. A detailed description of the program including video testimonials from past participants is available here: http://singularityu.org/ep

Our next EP will run from February 26th - March 7th, 2010 and I’d like to invite you to consider participating in the program.

If you’re interested in participating, you can complete the application here: http://singularityu.org/apply/#ex9

We held our inaugural Executive Program last month in November with outstanding results. Listed below are some quotes from participants and links to press coverage.

Quotes from EP Participants:

· “Every presentation and conversation blew my mind.”

· “EP09 has been one of the most exciting, intense and challenging experience of my life.”

· “I took away a lot of new ideas and amazing, amazing contacts. I think I will be able to formulate some very high impact messages for my company that could really shape its near term actions and strategies.”

· “I am grateful for the chance to be part of this experience. It is an exceptional opportunity. It is so rare in life to have a chance (particularly later in life) to spend nine days with equally qualified, equally inspired, and equally capable people.”

Selected Recent Articles:

BUSINESSWEEK “SingularityUniversity Gives Execs a View of the Future”

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2009/tc20091116_310553.htm

CNET “SingularityUniversity seasons executives for the future”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10394876-52.html

Best wishes,
Ray

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Click here for the article found on CNET News.

Fortunately for me, I was on the receiving end of a Kindle gift. However, I haven’t had much time to spend with it yet.

Click here for a related article titled “E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry” found on The Washington Post website.

Click here for yet another article titled “Is the Time Right to Buy an E-Reader?” on Fox News.

Click here if you want more information or to buy a Kindle from Amazon.com.

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2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots…

See why factory workers should be terrified for their job security…

Click here for the entire report found on the Singularity Hub website.

You will need to scroll down to view the report.

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The Implications of the Law of Accelerating Returns for the Search for ETI…

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This is the year technology changed us…

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Thanks for supporting Blogging the Singularity and enjoy the Holidays!

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Click here for the essay found on the New York Times Week in Review website.

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Pocket supercomputers, due by 2018, will likely use the perception algorithms being developed today by Intel Labs’ People and Practices Research group….

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Col. Doug Tamilio takes CNN to the testing grounds for a first look at the Army’s newest weapons.

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Getting artificial intelligence right could lead to a new world of abundance…

Click here for Part five in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. New posts every Monday from November 16 to January 23.

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Facebook’s privacy pullback isn’t just outrageous; it’s a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil…

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If you have a Facebook account but haven’t used it in a while, a lot more of your personal data may recently have become public. The social network overhauled its privacy policies, requiring users to set their preferences. If you haven’t taken that step, certain data that used to be hidden may now be exposed by default.

Click here to access the complete article found on the TechNewsWorld.com website.

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An engineering firm has developed a 3D bio-printer that could one day be used to create organs on demand for organ replacement surgery. The device is already capable of growing arteries and its creators say that arteries “printed” by the device could be used in heart bypass surgery in as little as five years. Meanwhile, more complex organs such as hearts, and teeth and bone should be possible within ten years.

The 3D bio-printer allows scientists to place cells of almost any type into a desired 3D pattern. It includes two print heads, one for placing human cells, and the other for placing a hydrogel, scaffold, or support matrix. The cells used by the device need to be the cells of what is being regenerated – building an artery requires arterial cells for example. Because the patient’s own cells are used the new organ will not be rejected by the body. The printer fits inside a standard biosafety cabinet for sterile use.

Its creators say that one of the most complex challenges in the development of the printer was being able to repeatedly position the capillary tip, attached to the print head, to within microns. This was essential to ensure that the cells are placed in exactly the right position. A computer controlled, laser-based calibration system was developed to achieve the required repeatability. more>>>

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