A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.