Human technological civilization existed on the planet for ten thousand years, and has had an effect strong enough all around for this period to be called the Antropocene by Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Krutzen. It is not exactly clear how people lived twenty or thirty thousand years ago, with idealistic views about communal sharing …
The January 2010 issue of Wired Italia. has a very nice article by Luca Sofri about Singularity University, and even more in depth about Ray Kurzweil, one of SU’s founders together with Peter Diamandis. Luca came to visit Singularity University at NASA Ames during the inaugural GSP-09 in July 2009, and went back to …
Image by david.orban via Flickr The Singularity University Executive Program just started this weekend and I will be lecturing in the Networks and Computing Systems track about the Internet Of Things, and holding a Spime Design Workshop. The program of nine weeks has been condensed—appropriately enough for a course talking about accelerating technologies—into just nine …
Back at the Singularity University for the Executive Program Read More »
With help from Google, and NASA, the Singularity University is being unveiled today. Founded by Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Diamandis, the objective of the Singularity University is that of preparing humanity to best face its challenges, using the tools that the accelerating technological change makes possible. These tools don’t emerge spontaneously from the background noise …
The Singularity University launches to prepare for humanity’s grand challenges Read More »
13:50 Lunch was very good. Just finger food, so nobody had to sit, and could keep shaking hands, and gesturing. I have to start preparing for my panel, so I don’t know how long I will be able to keep writing at this time. 14:10 Kidalicious panel. “Are kids and teenagers the future for virtual …
Liveblogging the Virtual Worlds Forum – Day 1 – Afternoon Read More »
There were a lot of very good speakers at the World Business Forum, and I was glad to be able and attend some of the sessions, and also to mingle with the other speakers. I met Eisner, from Disney, Chizen of Adobe, Perez of Kodak, Ray Kurzweil, and Colin Powell, well, of Kleiner Perkins, he …
Couldn’t liveblog at the World Business Forum, but twittered Read More »
I will be speaking at the World Business Forum next Tuesday, on the User Generated Marketing panel. The conference will be interesting, and I hope to have time to say hello to Ray Kurzweil who is also speaking there.
Image by David Trowbridge This spring I joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). After having followed Ray Kurzweil‘s, Eliezer Yudkowsky‘s, and Ben Goertzel‘s work for some time, it is my opinion that the institute that they are directing, together with Tyler Emerson, Bruce Klein, and others, is one of the most important today, …
Joining SIAI and participating in the Singularity Summit Read More »
I will be speaking about the Technological Singularity at the University of Milan in Crema on November 22 at 4PM. The talk entitled “La prossima singolarità tecnologica: realtà o miraggio?” will be followed by a roundtable discussion, and should be fun! It will also be recorded, and I will be posting as soon as possible …
