Sitting in the main theater at 92Y, everything is ready for the Singularity Summit to start in New York. Embedded here you will find my live notes from the event for Day 1, and I plan to do the same in a separate post for tomorrow, Day 2. (I am on wifi, and it is […]
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Stephen Wolfram, author of the book A New Kind Of Science, creator of the Mathematica symbolic calculation software suit, and of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine is a recent addition to the roster of speakers at the Singularity Summit in New York. In a recent webcast the audience in large numbers asked Stephen to comment
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Whole Brain Emulation is going to create synthetic humans, if the functionalist point of view of neuroscience is right, by implementing their thought processes in forthcoming hardware, and software systems, which could arrive as early as the middle of this century. What are the rights of these uploads? How will their existence impact our
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Analyzing, and implementing specific brain functions, in order to complement, or substitute them when impaired has been possible for a long time. Hearing aids, or a simple pair of glasses are well accepted tools helping our senses, and our brain functions. There many leaps that researchers working in the field of neuroengineering want to be
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On October 3-4, 2009, the Singularity Summit 09 is held in New York, and it promises to be a very stimulating event. Organized yearly by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Singinst), it is confronting for the first time an East Coast audience, after its past three editions in California. Invited by Singinst’s President, Michael
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As in all democracies, the right to vote in elections is a fundamental one in the United States Of America as well. However, contrary to other countries with a more centralized approach, the rules for exercising this right in the USA are incredibly complicated, and cumbersome to follow. First of all, you have to be
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I will be in New York on Monday and Tuesday, in San Diego on Wednesday, and in San Francisco until Monday. The week is pretty full, but if you are around New York on the 4th, or in San Francisco on the 7th, and want to have breakfast, let me know as I am still
Busy week in the US, but free for two breakfasts Read More »
Geof Stone is guest-blogging on Lessig.org about dissent, and how politicized media or strong-arming politics can suppress it, or try tint it with shades implied guilt. One of the most commovent views at a trip I took to the US in November 2001 was a poster the width of the entire building, at the second
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The enblogment by Lessig of Kerry is becoming a full blown applied memetics experiment, in both establishing the power of weblogs in spreading a neologism, and in establishing their influence. Winer’s page tracking the enblogments of the various candidates, and the Google tracker he posted will measure the spreading in the blogosphere, and on the
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I remember when Gorbachev would talk about a connected world around 1987. It felt new, as his policies, and his hope of progressive reform. What a difference now! Anybody seeing today that the US unilateral policies and interventionist stances are a danger to the world, feel that while only US citizens are going to vote
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