Singularity


Making the World A Billion Times Better -- Ray Kurzweil  -- Washington Post  -- April 13, 2008
Energy

Kurzweil predicts our computing power is likely to make a 'billion-fold' increase in power over the next 25 years which will "unlock a solution to global warming, unmask the secret to longer life and solve myriad other worldly conundrums."

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Man-Machine Merger Arriving Sooner Than You Think -- Rick Kleffel  -- National Public Radio  -- July 23, 2006
Metacomputing

Vernor Vinge and and Cory Doctorow discuss the technological singularity and conclude that a cooperative model linking computers, networks, and people makes the most sense.

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Is Science Fiction About to go Blind? -- Gregory Mone  -- Popular Science  -- August 1, 2004
Nanotechnology

Awed at the pace of technological advances, a faction of geeky writers believes our world is about to change so radically that envisioning what comes next is nearly impossible.

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Scientists of Very Small Draw Disciplines Together -- Barnaby J. Feder  -- New York Times  -- February 7, 2003
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology, biotechnology, electronics and brain research are converging into a new field of science, dubbed by some "NBIC", that may be vital to U.S. national security and economic clout.

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Technotopia and the Death of Nature: Clones, Supercomputers, and Robots -- James Bell  -- Earth Island Journal  -- May 1, 2002

The author examines the concept of a "technological singularity" from an environmental viewpoint.

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Dickerson?s Formula: Biochemistry?s Equivalent to Moore?s Law -- Staff  -- EnVision  -- January 1, 2002
Genetic Engineering

The author introduces "Dickerson's formula", the biological equivalent of Moore's law, that predicts an accelerating pace of discovery in the burgeoning field of protein structure determination.

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Kurzweil\'s Law -- Paul Boutin  -- Wired Magazine  -- April 1, 2001

A brief look at Ray Kurzweil\'s view on the accelerating rate of change and the \"Singularity\".

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The new convergence: Infotech, biotech and nanotech -- Steve Jurvetson  -- Draper Fisher Jurvetson  -- February 14, 2001
Nanotechnology

The author examines the growing convergence between the fields of information technology, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.

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Slowing Pace of Progress -- Phillip J. Longman  -- U.S. News and World Report  -- December 25, 2000

Phillip Longman argues that if we look at how efficiently the economy uses labor, capital, raw materials, and new technology, we would discover that the current rate of technological progress is decreasing rather than increasing.

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More More More: Nanotechnology and the Law of Increasing Returns -- Ronald Bailey  -- Reason Magazine  -- November 9, 2000
Nanotechnology

Ronald Bailey discusses the potential of nanotechnology to launch an exponential growth curve of progress.

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