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New health book, TRANSCEND, by Kurzweil and Grossman published
TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman updates and extends Fantastic Voyage book
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Medibots: The world's smallest surgeons
Advances in robotics could revolutionize healthcare, pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, from worm-inspired... (Nov. 20, 2009) [Read more]
IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip
IBM scientists have created a fast, one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on a silicon chip that uses capillary forces... (Nov. 19, 2009) [Read more]
The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication
Sergei Mayburov at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow suggests that optical communication is a natural process in many... (Nov. 19, 2009) [Read more]
On Your Last Nerve: Researchers Advance Understanding of Stem Cells
North Carolina State University researchers have identified a gene, FoxJ1, that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to... (Nov. 20, 2009) [Read more]
A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network
HP Labs has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE): a R&D program to build a... (Nov. 18, 2009) [Read more]
Google to Add Captions, Improving YouTube Videos
In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google... (Nov. 19, 2009) [Read more]
Sounds During Sleep Aid Memory, Study Finds
Playing sound cues associated with a picture in a specific location while people slept helped them remember more of what they... (Nov. 19, 2009) [Read more]
Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020
By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers, who are close to... (Nov. 19, 2009) [Read more]
Time-travelling browsers navigate the web's past
Finding old versions of web pages could become far simpler thanks to Memento, a "time-travelling" web browsing technology being... (Nov. 16, 2009) [Read more]
Andy Grove's Prescription for Health Care
Andrew S. Grove, the 73-year-old former chief executive of Intel, is advocating a new master's degree program in translational... (Nov. 18, 2009) [Read more]
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Openness and the Metaverse Singularity
By Jamais Cascio
The four worlds of the Metaverse Roadmap could also represent four pathways to a Singularity. But they also represent potential dangers. An "open-access Singularity" may be the answer. The people who ... (November 7th 2007)
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
By Vernor Vinge
It's 2045 and nerds in old-folks homes are wandering around, scratching their heads, and asking plaintively, "But ... but, where's the Singularity?" Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge--who originated... (March 14th 2007)
Foreword to The Intelligent Universe
By Ray Kurzweil
The explosive nature of exponential growth means it may only take a quarter of a millennium to go from sending messages on horseback to saturating the matter and energy in our solar system with sublim... (February 2nd 2007)
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BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists
By Richard A. Clarke
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. "Globegrid," a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combi... (May 18th 2007)
Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III
By William B. Scott
Space Wars by Willliam Scott, Michael Coumatos, and William Birnes, Forge Books (April 17, 2007) describes how the first hours of World War III might play out in the year 2010. While fiction, it's bas... (April 17th 2007)
The Moon as backup drive for civilization
By KurzweilAI.net
Imaginative new ideas for using space to protect civilization against existential risks, such as killer asteroids, nuclear war, and global terrorism, are in the works. The public increasingly sees NAS... (September 24th 2006)
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Why Language Is All Thumbs
By Chip Walter
Toolmaking not only resulted in tools, but also the reconfiguration of our brains so they comprehended the world on the same terms as our toolmaking hands interacted with it. With mirror neurons, some... (March 15th 2008)
AI Meets the Metaverse: Teachable AI Agents Living in Virtual Worlds
By Ben Goertzel
Online virtual worlds have the power to accelerate and catalyze the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). As AGIs involved in this metaverse become progressively more intelligent from ... (October 18th 2007)
The Age of Virtuous Machines
By J. Storrs Hall
In the "hard takeoff" scenario, a psychopathic AI suddenly emerges at a superhuman level, achieving universal dominance. Hall suggests an alternative: we've gotten better because we've become smarter,... (June 1st 2007)
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Gelernter, Kurzweil debate machine consciousness
By Rodney Brooks, Ray Kurzweil, and David Gelernter
Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic "zombies" or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even "spiritual" machines? David Gelernter ... (December 6th 2006)
Cyber Sapiens
By Chip Walter
...We will no longer be Homo sapiens, but Cyber sapiens--a creature part digital and part biological that will have placed more distance between its DNA and the destinies they force upon us than any o... (October 26th 2006)
Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
By Ray Kurzweil
The advent of strong AI (exceeding human intelligence) is the most important transformation this century will see, and it will happen within 25 years, says Ray Kurzweil, who will present this paper at... (July 13th 2006)
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Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future
By Aubrey de Grey
Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey expects many people alive today to live to 1000 years of age and to avoid age-related health problems even at that age. In this excerpt from his just-published,... (September 19th 2007)
Press ignores bias in study of multivitamins and prostate cancer
By Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
In a recent paper reporting on the National Cancer Institute study of multivitamin use and the risk of prostate cancer, the NCI authors cited several possible bias factors. An analysis by Ray Kurzweil... (May 25th 2007)
Strategic Sustainable Brain
By Natasha Vita-More
The human brain faces a challenging future. To cope with accelerating nanotech- and biotech-based developments in an increasingly complex world, compete with emerging superintelligence, and maintain i... (March 31st 2006)
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How to Build a Virtual Human
By Peter Plantec
Virtual Humans is the first book with instructions on designing a "V-human," or synthetic person. Using the programs on the included CD, you can create animated computer characters who can speak, dial... (October 20th 2003)
Remarks about Tod Machover In Presenting the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music
By Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil presented the 2003 Ray Kurzweil Award of Technology in Music to Tod Machover at the Fourth Annual Telluride Tech Festival (August 8-10, 2003). The award was in recognition of Machover's p... (August 11th 2003)
Glitches Reloaded
By Peter B. Lloyd
In Matrix Reloaded, how can Neo fly and use telekinesis if the Matrix is supposed to a physics simulation? Peter Lloyd decodes this and other technical enigmas--reverse-engineering the design of the M... (June 2nd 2003)
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Who Will Rule the 21st Century?
By Jack Welch
Straight-line extrapolation shows that China and India, with their faster growth rates, will eventually catch up to the U.S. in terms of pure economic size. But America has a final competitive advanta... (May 25th 2008)
EGOGRAM 2007
By Sir Arthur C. Clarke
The Golden Age of space travel is still ahead of us. Over the next 50 years, thousands of people will gain access to the orbital realm -- and then, to the Moon and beyond, says Sir Arthur, 89.... (February 7th 2007)
I'm Confident About Energy, the Environment, Longevity, and Wealth; I'm Optimistic (But Not Necessarily Confident) Of the Avoidance Of Existential Downsides; And I'm Hopeful (But Not Necessarily Optimistic) About a Repeat Of 9-11 (Or Worse)
By Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil responds to John Brockman's The Edge Annual Question - 2007: WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?
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Response to 'The Singularity Is Always Near'
By Ray Kurzweil
In "The Singularity Is Always Near," an essay in The Technium, an online "book in progress," author Kevin Kelly critiques arguments on exponential growth made in Ray Kurzweil's book, The Singularity I... (May 4th 2006)
Wolfram and Kurzweil Roundtable Discussion
By Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Wolfram
"The most dramatic possibility is the universe started from a simple initial condition that had some simple geometrical symmetry. It might be the case that if we turn our telescope off to the west, an... (February 24th 2006)
Ray Kurzweil Responds to Richard Eckersley
By Ray Kurzweil
"Eckersley bases his romanticized idea of ancient life on communication and the relationships fostered by communication. But much of modern technology is directed at just this basic human need."... (February 3rd 2006)
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Engines of Creation 2.0: Molecular Engineering: An Approach to the Development of General Capabilities for Molecular Manipulation
By K. Eric Drexler
Developing the ability to design protein molecules will make it possible to construct molecular machines. These can then build second-generation machines that can perform extremely general synthesis o... (March 20th 2007)
Engines of Creation 2.0: Advice To Aspiring Nanotechnologists
By K. Eric Drexler
It makes no practical sense to try to build a molecular assembler today. But we can build enabling technologies today, including protein engineering, general macromolecular engineering, and micromanip... (March 15th 2007)
Engines of Creation 2.0: Letter From Author
By K. Eric Drexler
Engines of Creation in 1986 inspired an explosion of interest in nanotechnology. Version 2.0 updates this classic book, including new concepts for molecular manufacturing and new uses for nanotech, s... (March 15th 2007)
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