ABC News talks to Ray Kurzweil
May 10, 2012
ABC News talks to Ray Kurzweil about how the technology that he has predicted in the books that he has published will dramatically change the world’s views on life and death.
Source: ABC News
Ray Kurzweil in the Press
This section is a collection of both current and archived Ray Kurzweil press, radio, and television interviews and appearances.
It includes hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles on science and technology breakthroughs, controversies, and predictions — explored through the lens of leading journalists in discussions with Kurzweil and colleagues — and videos of Ray Kurzweil’s TV interviews and public speaking engagements.
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SaulPaul’s official SXSW recap raps!
May 2, 2012
In 2002, SaulPaul graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Convergent Media degree from the School of Communications. In 2003, SaulPaul quit his job working in television and soon after released his first album. And now, almost 9 years later, he continues to make a living making music.
Katalyst | Katalyst vs. Singularity: a radical exploration into a subject of our times
April 23, 2012
Source: Katalyst — April 15, 2012 | Carver Wilcox, Anthony Batt & Kashy Khaledi
Library Journal | Nonfiction previews, October 2012, part 2: Applebaum, Kurzweil, & more
April 17, 2012
Source: Library Journal — April 16, 2012 | Barbara Hoffert
Ray Kurzweil’s How To Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Viking. Oct. 2012. 384p. ISBN 9780670025299. $27.95. SCIENCE
New York Times best-selling author (The Singularity Is Near), National Medal of Technology winner, and former Library Journal columnist (note that he was keynote speaker at LJ’s first virtual ebook…
Source: Investment Watch Blog — March 28, 2012
The famed futurist Ray Kurzweil’s “Singularity” makes Kaku’s predictions seem modest. Kurzweil postualtes that somewhere around the middle of this century, Artificial Intelligence will have progressed to the point that it exceeds human intelligence. Additionaly, the AI will be able to improve itself at exponential speeds. Thus, huge advances in technology will…
Source: Music of the Spinning Wheel — April 5, 2012 | Sudheendra Kulkarni
Mahatma Gandhi is a prophet for the age of the communication revolution: An interview with Dr. Ray Kurzweil by Sudheendra Kulkarni
Ray Kurzweil was a speaker at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi on 17 March 2012. On the sidelines of the conclave, he was interviewed by Sudheendra Kulkarni, a…
Google: Think Quarterly | ‘Transgressive Man’
April 4, 2012
Source: Google: Think Quarterly — April 4, 2012 | Cyrus Shahrad
Prophet, futurist, or catalyst of chaos? Ray Kurzweil believes that innovations in biogenetics and nanotechnology are creating a new future for humanity, but could they just as easily destroy us all?
There’s a scene near the opening of Transcendent Man, the 2009 documentary on futurist Ray Kurzweil, showing archive footage of…
Source: The Huffington Post — April 2, 2012 | David H. Bailey
The future will be different. So where is all this heading? A recent Time article features an interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, who predicts an era, roughly in 2045, when machine intelligence will meet, then transcend human intelligence. Such future intelligent systems will then design even more powerful technology, resulting in…
Forbes | In defense of small data
March 30, 2012
Source: Forbes — March 30, 2012 | Bruce Upbin
It all began in 1947 with the invention of the transistor, and it all ends in 40 years when Skynet gains sentience and destroys mankind. Until then, technology is enabling wave after wave of creative destruction with buzzwords to match.
The buzzword of 2012 is Big Data. Every tech conference must have…
Source: Blastr — March 14, 2012 | Matthew Jackson
Last week, legendary futurist Ray Kurzweil gave us his take on the failings of science fiction cinema. Now Nick Sagan, son of iconic astronomer and Contact author Carl Sagan, has his own bone to pick with sci-fi filmmakers. Unlike Kurzweil, he’s got only one complaint, but it’s big enough to cover just about every…