The Singularity Summit at Stanford has the most outstanding lineup of speakers imaginable. The event is FREE. Anybody want to carpool from Berkeley on May 13th?
Speaking:
- Ray Kurzweil
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Nick Bostrom
- Sebastian Thrun
- Cory Doctorow
- K. Eric Drexler
- Max More
- Christine L. Peterson
- John Smart
- Bill McKibben
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Steve Jurvetson
- Peter Thiel
What, then, is the singularity? It’s a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian or dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lives, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself. Understanding the singularity will alter our perspective on the significance of our past and the ramifications for our future. To truly understand it inherently changes one’s view of life in general and one’s own particular life.
The reading list is awesome.
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This is one amazing book, although I haven’t finished it yet. I dropped it for a lighter read about Kurt Godel which is how I found this blog. I was searching for his phrase “I Cannot Be Proved” and up came your website – The User Illusion. I hope to be an active participant on your blog. If I lived near Berkeley, I would definitely be in the car pool!
Too busy working on the Singularity to attend the Singularity.