You know it’s a mainstream idea when Cringely devotes his weekly column to the topic. Late last week, he wrote Surviving Immortality: just getting to the Singularity is the hard part which is a fairly balanced introduction to the notion of a Technological Singularity.
Having long been a follower of Kurzweil’s writings, I’ve been reading about [...]
08.19Daily Buzz
Part of my current daily ritual (being a die-hard tech geek and all) is my morning dose of technology & world news. Here are a few feeds that I rarely miss day to day:
KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News hosted by Ray Kurzweil, one of my favorite authors. (also available as a daily email)
Slashdot: News for [...]
While seeking more background on Vernor Vinge, I ran into The Future and You, a blog by one Steve Cobb which apparently generates monthly podcasts on “ideas and opinion about the future based on verifiable facts of today”. Hmmm, this does look like some interesting listening. At any rate, here are podcasts of interviews with Vernor Vinge (two at [...]
So I have finally decided to start a blog. Initially (and for the forseeable future) this will be little more than a personal journal where I track and record thoughts and ideas for which I have some greater-than-passing interest. It is mainly for myself (a journal more than a blog) but also a means of [...]