Of all the technologies that enable us to read books on electronic devices – including Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks – I’ve been most impressed with Blio, the e-reader software developed by noted singularitarian Ray Kurzweil. Word comes in from Engadget that Toshiba will be using Blio to power its forthcoming e-book store, which will [...]
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Where will AI be in 90 years? Experts weigh in
Silicon.com asked leading thinkers in the realm of artificial intelligence where they think AI will be in the year 2100. On the conservative side, we have responses from Noel Sharkey, who sees autonomous cars and more use of robots in medicine. On the more radical side, we have Ray Kurzweil, who believes we will have [...]
Ray Kurzweil shows off Blio e-reader software
With his books and essays about the singularity, it’s easy to forget that Ray Kurzweil built his name on his very successful inventions. Therefore, when he unveils a new invention, it’s a big deal. His latest venture is the Blio e-reader software, which will be distributed for free to a variety of platforms including the [...]
Ray Kurzweil keynote from Singularity U
I’ve been writing a little bit about the Singularity University Executive Program that started last week, and we’ve seen some excellent reports coming in from Ted Greenwald at Wired. Here’s video of Ray Kurzweil’s keynote that opened the program. Always inspiring and interesting to hear from one of the leading thinkers and evangelists for transhuman [...]