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

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... :)