techradar.com - August 22, 2008 by Gareth Beavis Intel has had a little chat about the future of the computing and robotics at the recent IDF event, and has come out with some alarming facts. The firm predicts in just over 40 years machines may have...
Topics: futurism, robotics

CNET News - August 22, 2008 Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner agrees with futurist Ray Kurzweil's assessment that the "singularity," when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, is nigh. To provide some evidence...
Topics: computers, futurism, singularity

NewScientist.com - August 21, 2008 Glider pilots harness upward-moving thermal air currents to keep them aloft for hours, while soaring birds use them to save energy. Uncrewed aerial vehicles may soon borrow the same technique to save precious fuel,...
Topics: futurism, robotics, singularity

ScienceNews - August 15th, 2008 by Julie Rehmeyer If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove. “If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting...
Topics: science

Technology Review - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 by Emily Singer The typical brain scan shows a muted gray rendering of the brain, easily distinguished by a series of convoluted folds. But according to Van Wedeen, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General..
Topics: futurism, science, singularity, transhumanism