Forbes — October 2, 2009 | Courtney Boyd Myers
The Singularity is not yet here, but its annual conference is, uniting futurists and their man-machine dreams. Technology futurists love to talk about the Singularity as the point in time when technology starts to progress so rapidly that machine intelligence melds with and surpasses human intelligence. It is to futurists what the Rapture is to fundamentalist Christians.
Grasshopper Group LLC — January 26, 2011 | Grasshopper Group LLC
Described by Forbes magazine as “the ultimate thinking machine”, American author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil published volumes of insightful predictions about the technology-driven future that we are currently living in.
Here, we explore which of his major forecasts came to fruition and what he sees in store for our destiny beyond.
The Independent — September 12, 2010 | Mike Hodgkinson
Over the following two days, in the conference hall at the Hyatt Regency hotel, these and other invited experts add their latest insights and thoughts to a concept first suggested in the 1950s by information theorist John von Neumann, expanded on during the 1980s and 1990s by computer scientist Vernor Vinge, and carried enthusiastically through to the 21st century by current singularitarian-in-chief, inventor Ray Kurzweil.
The singularity is… read more
William Hertling's Thoughtstream — March 12, 2012 | William Hertling
Notes on Ray Kurzweil’s SXSW keynote, from March 12, 2012 | “Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit” [#sxsw #IQExpand]
Digital Trends — December 20, 2012 | Geoff Duncan
Google has hired famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil as Director of Engineering. Will he be a figurehead, or a driving force at the company?
Internet giant Google has made a very high-profile hire, bringing famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil on board as the company’s new director of engineering. Interestingly, the announcement wasn’t made by Google but by Kurzweil himself on his own site,… read more
PolicyMic — May 13, 2013 | Geoffrey Hoffman
The singularity is (almost) here: Ray Kurzweil, Google’s current engineering director, has written extensively about the “singularity,” the point where mankind and computers merge. Although Google Glass is not the singularity, it really does bring us closer to that (fateful, terrifying, dreaded, utopian, pick an adjective) day.
I do not mean to be overly optimistic in thinking about the potential of Google Glass. It will have positive benefits… read more
Silicon Valley Business Journal — June 28, 2013 | Cromwell Schubarth
Ray Kurzweil, Padmasree Warrior, Peter Diamandis and Steve Blank joined the ranks of Silicon Valley Visionary Award winners Wednesday night at a gala event in Los Altos Hills. They join a Who’s Who of tech and venture investment that have been honored since 1998, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, John Doerr and Jerry Yang.
Kurzweil, 65, has been a prolific inventor of such things… read more
Business Day — January 29, 2014 | Kevin O'Grady
It’s impossible to know at this stage exactly what Google is planning. In 2012, it hired the US inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil to “work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing.”
Larry Page and Kurzweil agreed on a one-sentence job description: “To bring natural language understanding to Google.” It’s a safe bet that Kurzweil is the brain behind Google’s plans for the Internet of Things.… read more
BBC — June 24, 2014 | Peter Day
Some futurologists, notably the American Ray Kurzweil, predict that moment in the 2050s when artificial intelligence might outstrip its human counterpart, and then go on getting better.
It follows the computer power expansion laid down in 40 years ago in Moore’s law: a doubling of the power on a silicon chip every two years. [...]
The Georgia Straight — October 23, 2014 | Blaine Kyllo
Kurzweil used math modeling to predict that fossil fuels will be replaced within 20 years and we can engineer health lifespans.
Asked whether innovation will save us, Kurzweil is an optimist about our future.
Working for Google, Kurzweil’s got more data points on his graphs of exponential growth of information technologies. He says we’re only six doublings away from solar energy technologies being able to provide enough… read more
