Accelerating Future (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Wow! Congratulations to Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, and Jamais Cascio for being selected for Foreign Policy’s first annual list of Top 100 Global Thinkers. Their associated writeups can be found
Sentient Developments (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
From the four corners of the web: The Scientific Tragedy of Climategate | Reason Magazine Can climate change science recover from the damage done by leaked emails? Scientists 'grow' meat in laboratory | Telegraph The move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time. Foreign Policy Lists Cascio, Kurzweil,...
Andart (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Foreign Policy has made a list of the top 100 global thinkers. I'm happy to say that Nick Bostrom is #73 on that list, just over Gordon Brown (and just below Ray Kurzweil and Jamais Cascio). The amusing thing (beside...
Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... "creepy", but if we stop to seriously consider this, it's not as outlandish as it seems. Ray Kurzweil has been predicting just this for over two decades now..the merging of computing power and human thought, an event he calls the Singularity . Kurzweil even set the date: 2045 (by the way, the target date for the Intel implant is 2020, giving us 25 years to "get it right"...
idealawg (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
An article in today's New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal summarizes some of what we know about possible longevity enhancers. These include exercising brain and body, taking nutritional supplements, making music, singing, and having a sense of purpose. And then I read in the article this sci fi kind of information. Recently, a rather startling claim was made by Ray Kurzweil, an American scientist,...
