Source: CNN — May 30, 2008 | Glenn Beck
The following is a CNN transcript from the episode aired May 30, 2008. To watch the full video click here.
GLENN BECK, CNN HOST: At the age of five, Ray Kurzweil declared himself an inventor. By 17 he was on I’ve Got a Secret with a computer that he…
Source: Wired — Mar 24, 2008 | Gary Wolf
Ray Kurzweil, the famous inventor, is trim, balding, and not very tall. With his perfect posture and narrow black glasses, he would look at home in an old documentary about Cape Canaveral, but his mission is bolder than any mere voyage into space. He is attempting to travel across a frontier in time, to pass through the border between our era and a future so different as to be unrecognizable. He calls this border the singularity. Kurzweil is 60, but he intends to be no more than 40 when the singularity arrives.…
Source: LiveScience — February 19, 2008 | Robin Lloyd
[...] Ray Kurzweil is part of distinguished panel of engineers that says solar power will scale up to produce all the energy needs of Earth’s people in 20 years. There is 10,000 times more sunlight than we need to meet 100 percent of our energy needs, he says, and the technology needed for collecting and…
Source: The Times — February 16, 2008 | Mark Henderson
The advances are so rapid that one inventor says that humanity will be transformed by 2050. Our correspondent reports from the American Association conference in Boston. Artificial intelligence will match the human intellect within a couple of decades, according to an inventor who predicts a technological revolution in which intelligent “nano-robots” work inside the body…
Source: Vision — Spring 2007 issue | David F. Lloyd
American inventor and futurologist Ray Kurzweil submits that humans are on the brink of transcending their biology. He reminds his readers that in his 1998 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, he was already envisioning the nature of human life “past the point when machine and human cognition blurred.”
Source: Alex Barnett Blog — November, 2006 | Alex Barnett
I love Mind Camp. When I’m asked what Mind Camp is I answer that it is whatever you want to make it. (more on the unconference format here).
When I arrived on Saturday morning I browsed the sessions that other attendees had proposed and there were a number that I wanted…
Source: IT Conversations & Tech Nation — March 28, 2006 | Moira Gunn
IT Conversations | As part of the recent BioAgenda Summit 2006, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, debates Ray Kurzweil, one of America’s most prolific inventors and a futuristic thinker in his own right.
Their topic? One of the burning questions of our time: Will biotechnology save us? Or…
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Source: The Futurist
Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next 40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between physical and virtual reality.…
Source: Ubiquity — January 11, 2006 | John Gehl
UBIQUITY: How is the new book doing?
KURZWEIL: Very well. It’s in its fourth printing, and has been number one both in science and in philosophy on Amazon.
UBIQUITY: It’s an amazing, magisterial piece of work.
KURZWEIL: Thanks, I appreciate that.
UBIQUITY: Why don’t you talk a little bit about the notion of…
Source: National Public Radio — November 23, 2005 | Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm of National Public Radio talks with Ray Kurzweil about his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines. Click below to hear the interview.
