Entries tagged with: Singularity

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42 Minutes into the Future

Last December, at the Humanity+ event in San Francisco, I sat down with filmmaker Adam Ford for an extended interview on a wide variety of subjects, including the participatory panopticon, the possibilities around AI, geoengineering, even the role of art...

Posted on February 20, 2013 2:56 PM

Interview at Singularity 1 on 1

Roughly hour-long interview, wherein I talk about my educational background, humanizing the Singularity concept, and why "meat fetishism" isn't so bad. Here's the info at SingularityWeb as to what's going on here... Notes: I wasn't entirely awake at the outset...

Posted on November 28, 2012 2:02 PM

New Legacies

One of my favorite posts from my time here at Open the Future has to be Legacy Futures, from late 2008. The concept of a legacy future is simple: it's a persistent but outdated vision of the future that distorts...

Posted on June 18, 2012 2:21 PM

The Singularity, In Five Slides

The Singularity, in Five Slides from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo. Three minute excerpt from the New York talk. (Warning -- about halfway through, somebody bumps the camera, making a loud noise.)...

Posted on November 11, 2009 3:36 PM

Putting the Human Back Into the Post-Human -- The Motion Picture

The talk I gave at the New York Future Salon is now available! The entire video runs about 98 minutes; my talk starts after a couple of minutes of intro, and I finish up right at the one-hour mark. The...

Posted on November 9, 2009 10:05 AM

New FC: Singularity Scenarios

My latest Fast Company essay goes up today, talking about the different scenarios for a "Singularity" that arise when you take into account different cultural and political drivers for both before and after the development of greater-than-human intelligence. Three...

Posted on October 12, 2009 1:46 PM

"Singularity Salon" Talk

Here's my slide deck from my talk at last night's New York Futures Salon. This is the raw Slideshare conversion, so a few of the transitions end up as blank slides (and you lose all of the nifty Keynote effects)....

Posted on October 4, 2009 7:53 AM

New FC: The Singularity and Society

My Fast Company essay this week is a long one, offering up an overview of the Singularity concept for people who haven't following it closely -- as well as some thoughts about what might be missing. Despite the presence of...

Posted on September 29, 2009 3:23 PM

Flunking Out

So, Singularity University is now up and running (and has evidently fixed its web hosting problem). I've had a few people already ask me what I think of it. Based on what I've seen so far, I can just say:...

Posted on February 4, 2009 3:19 PM

We're Sorry, Due to Unforeseen Circumstances, the Singularity Has Been Postponed

Posted on February 3, 2009 9:11 AM

For When the Metal Ones Decide to Come For You

(From Saturday Night Live, some years ago.) Be afraid....

Posted on July 22, 2008 12:55 PM

Singular Sensations

The Singularity concept remains inescapable these days, although rarely well-understood. Both are unfortunate developments, for essentially the same reason: the popularity of the term "Singularity" has undermined its narrative value. Its use in a discussion is almost guaranteed to become...

Posted on July 3, 2008 6:51 PM

Singularities Enough, and Time

A few people have asked me what I thought of Karl Schroeder's recent article at Worldchanging, "No Time for the Singularity." Karl argues that we can't count on super-intelligent AIs to save us from environmental disaster, since by the time...

Posted on June 28, 2008 2:56 PM

Talking About the Metaverse & the Singularity

Just a few updates for those of you who like to hear these things: My talk at the Metaverse Meetup the other night went splendidly, and the video should be available real soon now. For those of you who can't...

Posted on December 3, 2007 5:23 PM

Singularity Summit Talk: Openness and the Metaverse Singularity

The following is the text of the presentation I'm giving today at the Singularity Summit. I've set the post to go live at the same time I go onto the stage. Update: this is now the corrected version, with the...

Posted on September 8, 2007 2:00 PM

Tuesday Topsight, June 5, 2007

My month of travel is over, and I look forward to sleeping in my own bed. • Vote Early, Vote Often: I recorded my KQED Perspectives piece earlier today, and once again was told that I have a voice for...

Posted on June 5, 2007 8:36 PM

Saturday Topsight, April 21, 2007

• CardioBot: The Heartlander is an inch-long robot designed to crawl across the surface of a living, beating heart, in order to carry out various medical tasks. Inserting the Heartlander requires minimally-invasive surgery, potentially under local anesthetic (i.e., out-patient heart...

Posted on April 21, 2007 5:13 PM

Good Ancestors... But Who Are Our Descendants?

The "Good Ancestor Principle" is based on a challenge posed by Jonas Salk: ...the most important question we must ask ourselves is, “Are we being good ancestors?” Given the rapidly changing discoveries and conditions of the times, this opens up...

Posted on February 8, 2007 1:34 PM

OtF Core: Open the Future

I wrote nearly 2,000 articles for WorldChanging, and I am very happy to have them there. Nonetheless, some of the pieces I wrote are fundamental parts of my worldview, and it's useful to have them here, too. "Open the Future,"...

Posted on April 18, 2006 3:09 PM

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