Source: The Wrap News — November 10, 2011 | Joshua L. Weinstein
Sony has put production of Singularity, Roland Emmerich’s big-budget sci-fi film, on hold while the filmmakers revise the script, The Wrap has confirmed.
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LiveScience | Solar power to rule in 20 years, futurists say
February 19, 2008
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 storing it is about to emerge as the field of solar energy is going to… read more
We Blog the World | Singularity University, Women@TheFrontier and 10 Incredible Women Design the Future
July 31, 2012
Source: We Blog the World — July 31, 2012
Singularity University held an event in conjunction with Women@TheFrontier at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley last week.
The program: “Designing the Future 2012″ brought together some of today’s female game-changers who are designing the future and disrupting the status quo.
Women@TheFrontier’s Susan Fonseka-Klein and KristinaMaria T-Gutierrez introduced inspirational women who had one heart warming story after another to share.
NASA’s Yvonne Cagle also paid a sentimental tribute to astronaut Sally Ride who passed away on July… read more
Forbes | Should we fear the rise of the robots?
May 5, 2013
Source: Forbes — May 4, 2013 | Greg Satell
In the Terminator series, John Connor and his mother fight to prevent Judgement Day, the moment when the computer system Skynet becomes self aware, decides humans are a threat and moves to wipe us out.
In the real world, we have our own version of Judgement Day called the Singularity and many can’t wait for it to come. Like in the Terminator, it is the moment when computers take over, but… read more
Source: The Wall Street Journal — March 6, 2013 | Amir Efrati
Ray Kurzweil and his son, Ethan, are both Silicon Valley futurists — though they have different ways of tackling what they perceive is coming next. Ray Kurzweil, 65 years old, joined Google Inc. in December after spending nearly five decades pioneering everything from machines that can read text aloud to the blind to a music synthesizer that sounds like a real piano.
Among his theories, which aren’t universally accepted… read more
Alex Barnett Blog | Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 Singularity session inspired by Kurzweil
November 16, 2006
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 to attend.
I popped out to get a coffee from Starbucks and on the… read more
Source: Motherboard — March 7, 2013 | Austin Considine
Another day, another step towards that elusive fountain of youth thanks, this time, to a new study that claims scientists have effectively reversed the effects of aging in neurons. Just last week, a study out of Italy revealed that neurons, specifically mouse neurons, could live much longer than usual when transplanted into a longer-living organism.
Or, as we put it here at Motherboard, that “Brain Cells May Live Longer When… read more
Source: The New York Times — May 3, 2013 | Christine Kenneally
The New York Times Sunday Book Review | How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil
Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, may be best known as a polymath inventor and futurist, but he’s really a cyborg sent back from the year 2029 to save humanity from the nature-nurture debate.
His mission is not to provide a final score… read more
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.
From releasing albums, to touring, to writing and producing for other artists, SaulPaul has done it all.… read more
The Daily Californian | Ryan Koehn’s picks of the week
April 8, 2013
Source: The Daily Californian — April 8, 2013 | Ryan Koehn
Ray Kurzweil at Zellerbach Hall | Don’t know the name Ray Kurzweil? Give it a few years. The leader in technology innovation and praised prophet of the future will visit our campus to share his widely popular predictions for human advancement, robotics and when exactly Siri will become smarter than you. Not prime date-night material — for that, please refer back to “42.” [...]