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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…
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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…
Singularity Summit 09 coming up in New York
On October 3-4, 2009, the Singularity Summit 09 is held in New York, and it promises to be a very…
What are ebooks and ebook readers really for?
Electronic text is not new, but the ebook has started to be seen as a new medium recently. The reason…
Polished, and less than polished mobile phones and operating systems
As new gadgets come out on the market, with more features, options, and possibilities for personal and professional use, I…
Lecture at the Singularity University
I am at the NASA Ames Research Center, where I spent a week at Singularity University. It was a great…
Space exploration: the Moon, Mars, and beyond
We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the landing on the Moon, and it is a good to keep asking…