Singularity Primer at Hubpages
In keeping with my promise for this space, I've published what I hope will be a first-of-several article regarding the Singularity out at hubpages.com. It's a pretty cursory overview of my impression of how the Singularity will come about, and it hints at some of the questions I hope to be able to answer in future articles/posts. Have a look if you're interested!
Singularity: The Movie
No blog talking about futurism, nanotechnology, and the Singularity can possibly avoid mentioning Ray Kurzweil at some point. So I'll get my initial mention out of the way right now.
http://singularity.com/themovie/index.html
What makes me think this might not be completely awful is the fact that the list of co-stars/featured people is like a who's who of real-world futurism and technology forethought: Marvin Minsky, Neil Gershenfeld, K. Eric Drexler... these are heavy hitters. So maybe a cross between "Nano" and "An Inconvenient Truth". But nerdier.
Much like the future itself, I'm quite uneasy but can't bear to make myself look away... :)
http://singularity.com/themovie/index.html
And now I'm cautiously excited 'cause apparently Ray Kurzweil's 2006 book "The Singularity is Near" (which I'm reading) is being released as a movie in 2008. I'm scared of the plot summary, which involves an avatar saving the world from self-replicating nanobots. Sounds like it could get kinda bad (c.f. "Nano" by John Robert Marlow), if they're really going to try and infuse a lot of drama into it.
What makes me think this might not be completely awful is the fact that the list of co-stars/featured people is like a who's who of real-world futurism and technology forethought: Marvin Minsky, Neil Gershenfeld, K. Eric Drexler... these are heavy hitters. So maybe a cross between "Nano" and "An Inconvenient Truth". But nerdier.
Much like the future itself, I'm quite uneasy but can't bear to make myself look away... :)
Lusty Airing? I don't get it.
The short answer is that it's an anagram of "Singularity", which is one of the topics that really interests me. I'll fill this space with occasional thoughts about the future of computing, the future of humanity, and the future of humanity's relationship with the technologies we've created.
This will NOT be a place where I talk about gadgets, stupid technology tricks, and things like that (though I may occasionally mention them or link to posts); there are already plenty of those out there. This is a place for talking about our "technological adolescence", which we continue to approach with more and more questions.
I'll also post links here to stuff that I write in other places, that doesn't nicely fit the blog format. Stay tuned.
This will NOT be a place where I talk about gadgets, stupid technology tricks, and things like that (though I may occasionally mention them or link to posts); there are already plenty of those out there. This is a place for talking about our "technological adolescence", which we continue to approach with more and more questions.
I'll also post links here to stuff that I write in other places, that doesn't nicely fit the blog format. Stay tuned.
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