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This panel was held at Boskone 47 in Boston, MA on February 12th, 2010. Moderating was the Guest of Honor, Alastair Reynolds. Other panel participants included several time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge, Locus Award winner Charles Stross, and Karl Schroeder.
The Singularity: An Appraisal from Michael Johnson on Vimeo.
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The catchily named Skinput device, the result of a collaboration between Microsoft and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, will…
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The moment Jaron Lanier takes the stage at the solidly packed Actors’ Gang Theater, even those unfamiliar with his work sense that he’s the real deal — a Bay Area–based computer wizard/philosophical thinker/experimental musician with decades-long influence on cultural, political and economic movers and shakers…
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Also, I have just discovered that the book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” by Jaron Lanier is one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for January 2010.
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Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General,” from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, “The Pirates of Penzance.”
About TEDx, x=independently organize event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-
organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep
discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized
events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.
The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but
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Even to GQ and Playboy magazines…
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More material to help you understand the future of technology and artificial intelligence…
The tenth and final post in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic…
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Let’s review the taxation ways. Let’s count the ways - Sales taxes, School taxes, Property taxes, Village taxes, County taxes, State taxes, Federal taxes, fees as taxes, etc…
And now Global taxation…
The U.N.’s World Health Organization is Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity, etc…
Global taxation is begining, where will it end?
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Is superhuman intelligence feasible, or even desirable?
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or should I say The Singularity Meets Islam…
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Who would have thought? What might it mean?
Researchers are exploring this notion. They theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development…
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Getting artificial intelligence right could lead to a new world of abundance…
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Last Friday’s IEET seminar on Biopolitics and Popular Culture has come and gone. What were the take-aways?
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In his talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford., examines the nature of human beings as products of evolution, in particular their limited altruism, limited co-operative instincts and limited ability to take account of the future consequences of actions. He argues that humans’ biology and psychology are unfit for the kind of society we live in and we must either alter our political institutions, severely restrain our technology or change our nature. Or face annihilation by our own design. Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, October 2009
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Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction - PART 2 from Ethics of the New Biosciences on Vimeo.
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