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Entries Tagged ‘Ray Kurzweil’

The importance of imagining the future


If you’re in technology and you don’t think about the future – like *all* the time – then something’s probably wrong with you. The future is coming at us fast. And I don’t mean that in the sense of the Sardarji who wasn’t worried about his 14 year prison sentence since, “Koi gal naieen, 14 [...]

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All Hail, our Robot Overlords!


You KNOW it’s going to happen! We can either extend our own biological capabilities by tapping into the science and innovation fuelling robotics and AI, or we’ll essentially become irrelevant. I’m not the only one saying it. Ray Kurzweil‘s been on this bandwagon for a while, in fact, I think he’s behind the wheel! Hans [...]

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IBM/Dept. of Energy's Roadrunner Supercomputer achieves a petaflop, but no Singularity yet


There’s too much background to this headline for me to bring you up to speed in a short blog post. Suffice to say, one of my favourite authors and an all round Bright Guy, Ray Kurzweil, wrote a series of books culminating in his latest work, “The Singularity is Near“. In these books Ray talks [...]

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