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The Washington Post | MeriTalk tech conference brings public and private sectors together

March 1, 2010

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Source: The Washington Post — March 1, 2010 | Mike Musgrove

To make some sense of technology’s rapid advances, MeriTalk reached for a Big Thinker, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil:

“Part of my mission here will be to broaden the perspective of these IT directors,” he said. “It’s not just routers and cloud computing. We really are transforming all the things we care about with information technology.”

As areas of study such as health intersect… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures

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Global Retail Marketing Assoc. | Kurzweil keynote: national brands gather to hear predictions in technology and its impact on managing innovation

March 27, 2010

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Source: Global Retail Marketing Assoc. — March 27, 2010 | GRMA Staff

Global Retail Marketing Association | The Global Retail Marketing Association announces Ray Kurzweil, bestselling author, to speak at the 4th annual GRMA Leadership Forum, April 22-24, in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Senior Marketers from leading national retail brands will gather in April to hear Kurzweil’s predictions on the future of technology and its impact on managing innovation.  Inventor and recipient of nineteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three US presidents, Kurzweil has been described by the Wall Street Journal as… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship

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The National Association of Broadcasters | Revolutionary inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil will take the stage at 2010 NAB show

April 2, 2010

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Source: The National Association of Broadcasters — April 2, 2010 | NAB staff

 The NAB Show, the annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment across all platforms, has announced that Ray Kurzweil, one of the 21st century’s most revolutionary thinkers, will headline a session entitled “The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Media, Communications, and Society.” A discussion with Donald Marinelli, Executive Producer of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, will… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social Networking/Web/Education

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The Boston Phoenix | Is genius immortal? Tech god Ray Kurzweil is a modern-day Edison: now he’s battling to stay alive — forever

May 3, 2010

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Source: The Boston Phoenix — May 3, 2010 | Chris Faraone

No disrespect to the man who let there be electric light, but Ray Kurzweil is Thomas Alva Edison on steroids. That might not be evident on a visitor’s first trip to his Kurzweil Technologies, a sleek yet modest office in Wellesley Hills, which is rather ordinary looking for the headquarters of a futurist who’s striving to live forever.

Still, the 62-year-old inventor is aware of the Edison comparisons, and… read more

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World Future Review | An interview with Ray Kurzweil: inventor, bestselling author, WorldFuture 2010 speaker

May 5, 2010

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Source: World Future Review — May 5, 2010 | Aaron M. Cohen

Merging With the Machines: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law of Exponential Growth: This interview was conducted by Aaron M. Cohen on behalf of World Future Review.

World Future Review: What does it mean to build “new and improved” human intelligence? And where are we in terms of bringing this to reality?

Kurzweil: There are two components must be achieved to create a human-level… read more

Topics: Social Networking/Web/Education

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Singularity Hub | Kurzweil’s next book: creating an artificial mind

May 26, 2010

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Source: Singularity Hub — May 26, 2010 | Aaron Saenz

Ray Kurzweil is working on another book, this one to explore the principles of human level intelligence in machines.

Titled How the Mind Works and How to Build One, the new book will explore all the amazing developments in reverse engineering the brain that have come along since his last book, the Singularity is Near was released in 2005.

Whether or not you… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Singularity/Futures

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The New York Times | Merely human? That’s so yesterday

June 11, 2010

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Source: The New York Times — June 11, 2010 | Ashlee Vance

On a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.

While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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InformationWeek | Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity future

July 3, 2010

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Source: InformationWeek — July 3, 2010 | Michael Greene

The noted futurist has released a movie, The Singularity Is Near, exploring how technology may reshape the fabric of our physical reality and life experiences.

Tech professionals have become somewhat inured to descriptions of the exponential rise in computing power in what is commonly described as Moore’s law. But when inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil strings together dozens of examples on logarithmic graphs to support his… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Singularity/Futures

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MSNBC Cosmic Log | Reaching for immortality

July 15, 2010

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Source: MSNBC Cosmic Log — July 15, 2010 | Alan Boyle

The quest for immortality goes back to Adam and Eve, but now some smart people are getting serious about actually bringing it within their grasp. And they’re getting more attention as well. [...]  

Like de Grey and his colleagues, futurist/inventor Ray Kurzweil has been facing these challenges for years — not as an anti-aging researcher per se, but as a smart guy who has made his name by predicting… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Singularity/Futures

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Singularity Hub | When will computers match the human brain? Kurzweil vs. Myers

August 19, 2010

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Source: Singularity Hub — August 19, 2010 | Aaron Saenz

10 years? 20 years? 100 years? Never? There are about as many predictions for when artificial intelligence will match human intellect as there are AI researchers.

More, really, when you figure in all the people who simply read about AI research and decide to make their own decisions (I’m in that boat myself). Processing power has been increasing exponentially for years, and few doubt that it… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI | Singularity/Futures

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