Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am?
November 9, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Once we learn how to map the brain and make computers fast enough to simulate it, all bets are off.… read more
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Remarks on Accepting the American Composers Orchestra Award
November 14, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
The Second Annual American Composers Orchestra Award for the Advancement of New Music in America was presented on November 13 to Ray Kurzweil by American Composers Orchestra. Kurzweil reflects on creativity and the jump from the blackboard to changing peoples’ lives.… read more
The Computational Perspective
November 19, 2001 by Daniel Dennett
What does computation mean? Daniel Dennett discusses information architecture beyond the mechanized causation in computers and frames the question in terms of the organization of matter itself. What do models of computation tell us about the material world?… read more
Are We Becoming an Endangered Species? Technology and Ethics in the Twenty First Century
November 20, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil addresses questions presented at Are We Becoming an Endangered Species? Technology and Ethics in the 21st Century, a conference on technology and ethics sponsored by Washington National Cathedral. Other panelists are Anne Foerst, Bill Joy and Bill Mckibben.… read more
Inventing Modern America: Book Launch and Panel Discussion with Lemelson-Prize Inventors
November 28, 2001 by Lucas Hendrich
At a launch event for the book on November 27, 2001, five of them discussed their influences, dreams, and where future innovation should focus with the book’s author, David E. Brown, and Christopher Lydon, former host of National Public Radio’s call-in talk show “The Connection.”… read more
Arthur C. Clarke Offers His Vision of the Future
December 3, 2001 by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Kurzweil
The science fiction visionary behind HAL offers his predictions of salient events to come in this century.… read more
Ray Kurzweil Q&A with Darwin Magazine
December 3, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Machine consciousness is the subject of this dialog with Darwin Magazine.… read more
Streams
December 4, 2001 by David Gelernter
How will peoples’ sense of time change when software and computing technology evolves into new paradigms? In this Edge article, David Gelernter explores space, time and the next generation of computing.… read more
The Central Metaphor of Everything?
December 4, 2001 by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier’s Edge article takes a skeptical look at Moore’s Law and its application to trends outside of computer hardware. Will computers become smarter than us in twenty years? Is the computational metaphor actually impeding progress?… read more
Man-Computer Symbiosis
December 11, 2001 by J.C.R. Licklider
Written in 1960, this essay foresaw the growing dependence upon computers for more and more intelligent functions, and an age of human/computer interdependence in which the distinction between the two becomes increasingly blurred.… read more
How Does the Brain Generate Computation?
December 19, 2001 by Marc D. Hauser
In this Edge talk, Marc D. Hauser reflects on attempts to answer this question, from Noam Chomsky’s insights to the dance of the honey bee.… read more
Software, Property and Human Civilization
December 19, 2001 by Jordan Pollack
In this Edge talk, Jordan Pollack discusses a phenomenon that may restrict innovation: the inability to buy products, due to the established model of software licensing. What are the implications for human civilization?… read more