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The world today looks more like Samuel Huntington's vision of The Clash of Civilizations than anything else. There doesn't seem to be any less division and strife now than before. However, it's hard to escape the conclusion that something has
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In the Terminator series , John Connor and his mother fight to prevent Judgement Day, the moment when the computer system Skynet becomes self aware, decides humans are a threat and moves to wipe us out. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)
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He didn't want to look just at any companies, but at formerly successful ones. The kind whose stocks were once high flyers and whose CEO's graced the covers of top business magazines. Not the losers, but the once great champions who stumbled and
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Ray Kurzweil and his son, Ethan, are both Silicon Valley futuriststhough they have different ways of tackling what they perceive is coming next...December after spending nearly five decades pioneering everything from machines that can read text aloud
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Story All this stature stems primarily from his conviction that by 2040 we will be able to transfer our minds to machines. As the promotional text proclaimed on his 2006 book The Singularity Is Near , Our intelligence will become increasingly non-
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I'm interested in how your ideas connect to what we do here in LaLa Land...Ray Kurzweil: There's an issue in portraying the future, which, if you follow my reasoning, will be very different in every dimension. And as soon as you introduce even a
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The National Inventor Hall of Fame inductee began his career making technology that helped blind people read Stevie Wonder, in fact, is a good friend because of this and then went on to pen books about computer science, nutrition, spirituality, and
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Ames Research Center, within walking distance of the Googleplex, elite groups of very smart people are trying to prepare for a future so advanced we can't even predict what it'll look like. This Singularity University is a hub for forward-thinking
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Trevor Collens It is hard not to think Arnold Schwarzenegger while talking to futurist Ray Kurzweil. This is not because he looks like Arnie (he is pretty much the physical opposite), but because he keeps saying things that sound like the plot of the
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Ray Kurzweil on how entrepreneurs can live forever (video) September 2, 2011 Dean Takahashi Ray Kurzweil believes that health and medicine are going to benefit in the next two decades from what he calls the law of accelerating returns. That idea
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