Archive for the ‘singularity’ category: Page 61
Jul 9, 2017
Isn’t Technological Singularity Just Backing Up Consciousness For Safe Keeping?
Posted by Dave Holt in categories: existential risks, neuroscience, singularity, transhumanism
It’s amazing how fast science and emerging technologies are moving but most people seem to not care and want to break their emotional trance on trivial, emotional laden, propaganda filled news and views. Even though, this new science and emerging technology will have a profound effect on their lives and the lives of their children.
Human Extinction and using technological singularity and transhumanism to back up human consciousness to save and evolve the human race.
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Jul 7, 2017
One Man Is Raising $100 Billion to Build Computer Chips With an IQ of 10,000
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, singularity
Jul 5, 2017
How SoftBank is Betting Billions to Prepare for the Singularity
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: singularity
Jun 17, 2017
These 7 Disruptive Technologies Could Be Worth Trillions of Dollars
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: finance, singularity
Scientists, technologists, engineers, and visionaries are building the future. Amazing things are in the pipeline. It’s a big deal. But you already knew all that. Such speculation is common. What’s less common? Scale.
How big is big?
“Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Silicon Dock, all of the Silicons around the world, they are dreaming the dream. They are innovating,” Catherine Wood said at Singularity University’s Exponential Finance in New York. “We are sizing the opportunity. That’s what we do.”
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Jun 15, 2017
The New Gnosticism of the Transhumanists
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: computing, cyborgs, geopolitics, life extension, neuroscience, singularity, transhumanism
New story about the recent book on #transhumanism To Be a Machine:
For the (very very quickly) upcoming Love & Death Issue, I had the chance to interview the journalist, Mark O’Connell, who is the author most recently of To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death. He also wrote that amazing piece in the New York Times Magazine a few months ago about Zoltan Istvan, the transhumanist who ran for president and drove across the country in a coffin-shaped bus. O’Connell’s new book reads like a travelogue among characters like Zoltan, futuristic types (mostly from California) that O’Connell describes with a charming blend of cynicism and aloof interest. Like an agnostic amidst a group of “true believers,” O’Connell is both repelled by and drawn in by the belief system that transhumanism proffers.
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Jun 13, 2017
Why is the language of transhumanists and religion so similar?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: robotics/AI, singularity, transhumanism
Very interesting new feature in Aeon on AI that also discusses my short fiction The Jesus Singularity: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-language-of-transhumanists…so-similar #transhumanism
The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
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Jun 9, 2017
Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro – Supporting the development of cryonics and rejuvenation biotechnology
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, economics, education, engineering, life extension, lifeboat, singularity
Interview with Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro at the International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit in Madrid.
During the recent International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit in Madrid, LEAF Board member Elena Milova had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro new fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) and long-term proponent of innovation technologies in many fields. Jose shared his vision on how public perception of rejuvenation technologies is changing over time and what are the main outcomes of the groundbreaking show he and his team managed to organize.
Jun 8, 2017
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Future A to Z
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: business, computing, cyborgs, engineering, ethics, existential risks, machine learning, robotics/AI, singularity
What is the ultimate goal of Artificial General Intelligence?
In this video series, the Galactic Public Archives takes bite-sized looks at a variety of terms, technologies, and ideas that are likely to be prominent in the future. Terms are regularly changing and being redefined with the passing of time. With constant breakthroughs and the development of new technology and other resources, we seek to define what these things are and how they will impact our future.
Jun 5, 2017
FM-2030: Are You Transhuman?
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: philosophy, science, singularity, transhumanism
This film was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM-2030 held at the University of California on February 6th, 1994. In this discussion 2030 laid out an overview of his ‘transhuman’ philosophy and held a back and forth with other people present in the discussion. Discussion and debate included items such as the value of researching ‘indefinite lifespan’ technologies directly as opposed to (or in addition to) more traditional approaches, such as researching cures for specific diseases.
The excerpts in this archive file present a sort of thesis of FM 2030’s transhuman ideas.
About FM 2030: FM 2030 was at various points in his life, an Iranian Olympic basketball player, a diplomat, a university teacher, and a corporate consultant. He developed his views on transhumanism in the 1960s and evolved them over the next thirty-something years. He was placed in cryonic suspension July 8th, 2000. For more information about FM 2030, view the GPA Archive File: ‘Introduction to FM 2030′ or visit some of the following links:
