Are you hoping for Ray Kurzweil’s infamous “Singularity” to occur, or not? Jon Evans, for one, is just plain annoyed by it, as he explains at TechCrunch: Ray Kurzweil’s predictions of the…
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It’s easy to fantasize about what the singularity could bring us. YouTube user Tom Scott has created perhaps the most likely — and most depressing — scenario of what our technological futures could…
A robot solved the “wise men puzzle” at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Duncan Geere via TechRadar: Roboticists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have built a trio of robots…
[Editor’s Note: This article may contain spoilers.] Most of the time, I couldn’t care less about a computer’s feelings. I distrust them, frequently cuss at them, and occasionally smash them to pieces….
via EarthSky.org: Reports of the death of the Big Bang have been greatly exaggerated. Big Bang theory is alive and well. At the same time, our universe may not have a beginning…
Via Midwest Real “You can look at the historical trajectory. From a technological point of view, we’ve gone to ever-more aggregated collectives… And now, in the last 15 years we’ve seen this…
“If a superior alien civilization sent us a text message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here — we’ll leave the…
Do you believe in transcendence, about which Wikipedia says “In religious experience transcendence is a state of being that has overcome the limitations of physical existence and by some definitions has also…
What is smarter than hoovering up the personal information and innermost thoughts of every person on the planet and then stuffing it into a single database? Creating an artificial intelligence system capable…
“Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence” Robert Heinlein This is my opinion of what might be, not What THE FUTURE!!! Will Be! My POV is hardware driven, I…
Via Edge.org, Bruce Sterling tells us what to not worry about: Twenty years have passed since Vernor Vinge wrote his remarkably interesting essay about “the Singularity.” This aging sci-fi notion has lost…
Everyone knows we are at the mercy of huge corporations in multitude of ways. Just look at Big Oil. We are wildly dependent on them as not only individuals, but as a…
By now, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Oculus Rift reaction videos floating around the Internet. In case you haven’t— Oculus Rift is essentially the first accessible, high quality set of stereoscopic…
When you’re a tech multi-millionaire, this is the kind of project you come up with, at least in the case of 32-year-old Russian Dmitry Itskov. David Segal reports for the New York…
Ok, so Ray Kurzweil is a man of above average intelligence and achievement, even if he only just got his first job (Google, of course), but is a desire to live forever…
The prime futurist fear is that humanity will create some advanced technology with an ostensibly positive purpose, but it will buck our control and undo the world as it pursues some twisted…
We’re still waiting for machines to pass the Turing test. Recent film work with the chatbot Cleverbot shows the futility of passing the bar for natural conversation. But there are certainly things…
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Technology, aliens, other dimensions, time travel and the Singularity! UFOlogist and Gralien Report host Micah Hanks drops by to discuss his new book The UFO Singularity: Why Are Past Unexplained Phenomena Changing Our Future? Where Will Transcending the Bounds of Current Thinking Lead? How Near is the Singularity? in this episode of the DisinfoCast.
(c)2013 by alizardx This article is mainly intended to discuss ideas regarding DIY human augmentation (extending human senses, access to information, access to tools, ultimately increasing effective human intelligence, therapeutic devices) beyond…
This seems a little too pat and self-assured to me. Might as well be a prediction from The Amazing Criswell.
Via amor mundi, Dale Carrico hopes to douse some sober reality onto those awaiting a transhumanist, technocratic future: Any child can indulge in wish fulfillment fantasizing. It’s not a philosophy [or] a…
Check out the first episode of the new DoseNation Podcast: Via DoseNation.com: In this broadcast we meet our hosts Jake Kettle and James Kent, who discuss the apocalypse that never came, the…
I’ve been following this website for a while now. I heard of it through science fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling. I think many disinfonauts would enjoy it as well. The basic premise is that while nature becomes culture ( picture a wilderness area being cleared and turned into a subdivision) culture also eventually becomes nature (picture the Exclusion zone of Chernobyl becoming a wilderness again, or urban areas becoming habitats for wild animals) Man-made systems, seeking to simplify nature, often become overly complex and devolve back in to chaos:
All Things Digital’s Arik Hesseldahl had the distinct pleasure of serving as moderator for a discussion between Ray Kurzweil and Ted Enriquez. Happily the event was recorded for posterity. Note: The video features a talk from Enriquez, then Kurzweil and then their moderated discussion.