Internet for peace
Internet is not just a tool. Its effects are not neutral, and symmetrical for good, or evil. There is a…
Writing & Ideas
Two decades of thinking, in order.
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Back at the Singularity University for the Executive Program
Image by david.orban via Flickr The Singularity University Executive Program just started this weekend and I will be lecturing in…
The ability to imagine and create new worlds
There will be those who say that this is just rhetoric. But if it is—and I say this as a…
Singularity Summit Day 2
Here’s day two: Singularity Summit 09 Day 2
Live blogging the Singularity Summit 09
Sitting in the main theater at 92Y, everything is ready for the Singularity Summit to start in New York. Embedded…
Stephen Wolfram to speak at Singularity Summit
Stephen Wolfram, author of the book A New Kind Of Science, creator of the Mathematica symbolic calculation software suit, and…
Anders Sandberg, and the Ethics of Uploading
Whole Brain Emulation is going to create synthetic humans, if the functionalist point of view of neuroscience is right,…
Randal Koene on Whole Brain Emulation
Analyzing, and implementing specific brain functions, in order to complement, or substitute them when impaired has been possible for a…
The Performance Curve Database at the Santa Fe Institute
Bela Nagy is working at the Santa Fe Institute on a project called the Performance Curve Data Base, which collects…