mike the mountain

Singularity Summit video/audio

Cory Doctorow: Last year, I spoke at a Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity Summit at Stanford, a day-long event about the future of technology and the possibility of a coming Singularity. There were some killer speakers (including my hero Douglas R “Godel, Escher, Bach” Hofstadter).

The technological Singularity — what Ken Macleod called “The Rapture of the Nerds” — is the moment at which it is possible to make a computer that is as smart as a human, and then smarter. The idea is that we will irrevocably change as a species at that moment.

The Singularity Institute has put up full videos and audio from the Summit now — there’s some great stuff here. Link (Thanks, Tyler!)