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Wired
December 2000
Jaron Lanier |
One-Half of a Manifesto Why stupid software will save the future from neo-Darwinian machines...   |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009 |
The Singularity Is Coming--Now What? For some time now, futurists have been talking about a concept called the Singularity, a technological jump so big that society will be transformed. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Gary Wolf |
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity The famous inventors lifetime goal is to travel across a frontier in time, to pass through the border between our era and a future without human life. |
Wired
May 2002 |
Long Bets Seventeen of the world's most wired minds stake their names -- and their cash -- on the future... |
Salon.com
June 21, 2001
Dan Dinello |
We, robots! From Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" to Steven Spielberg's "A.I.," the line between man and machine has never been clear... |
Wired
April 2000
Bill Joy |
Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006 |
Robots Can Ape Us, But Will They Ever Get Real? One of the most profound questions of engineering, arguably, is whether we will ever create human-level consciousness in a machine. In the meantime, robots continue to take tiny little bot steps in the direction of faux humanity. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2000
Janelle Brown |
Robots "R" us Why are roboticists building machines in their own image? "Robo Sapiens" introduces a homemade population and the egos behind the bots. |
Reason
June 2000
Virginia Postrel |
Joy, to the World A techno-celebrity's childish manifesto - Wired Magazine's hype machine came roaring back with the April cover story--a long, long, long think piece by the hip software genius Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. |
Wired
April 2001
Paul Boutin |
Kurzweil's Law Change is accelerating. And so is the acceleration. Say good-bye to the future as we know it... |
Popular Mechanics
October 5, 2009
Glenn Derene |
What Does a Beer Taste Like After the Singularity? Even if we accepted that it was possible to digitize the broad, ever-evolving spectrum that is human intelligence, add your own consciousness to it and then accelerate the heck out of it, what would the point be, exactly? |
Reason
May 2007
Mike Godwin |
Superhuman Imagination Mathematician, computer scientist, and novelist Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and a "convergence" of technological trends that threaten to drastically limit individual freedom. |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
John C. Dvorak |
In-Your-Face Advertising One thing is certain: Web users don't want to pay for anything, ever. Sadly, the only way that equation works is with advertising. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Mark Anderson |
Never Mind the Singularity, Here's the Science Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. |
Scientific American
December 2008
John Rennie |
Dynamic Darwinism: Evolution Theory Thrives Today The naturalist would approve of how evolutionary science continues to improve |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Otis Port |
Raymond C. Kurzweil: Prophet Of Longevity Inventor-entrepreneur-author Raymond C. Kurzweil believes that by 2030, biomedical technology will allow us to halt the body's aging process and rejuvenate tired cells. He laid out several predictions that have proven successful in his book, Fantastic Voyage; another book is due in September. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2015
Baratunde Thurston |
Do Not Fear The Robot Apocalypse We don't need to imagine a future filled with human suffering at the (liquid metal) hands of supersmart robots. Many are suffering now at the hands of their fellow humans. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Glenn Zorpette |
Waiting for the Rapture The singularity is supposed to begin shortly after engineers build the first computer with greater-than-human intelligence. |
