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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • Today’s AI in tomorrow’s medicine

    George Rebane Wired magazine has a very lame article on what should be an exciting report – the advent and functionality of clinical AI systems that are entering the healthcare service.  ‘Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription for Health Care’ authored by Brandon Keim paints an inconclusive ‘on the one hand, … but…

  • Singularity Signposts – More Rapid Systemic Unemployment

    George Rebane Regular readers have known for some years what portents the American factory and warehouse worker has in store for his future employment prospects.  I initially calculated that the number of un/deremployed would be about 40 million by 2020.  It has been clear for some time now that this estimate is too low.  I…

  • Singularity Scattershots – 5aug12

    George Rebane The report of the latest employment numbers underlines our deep and abiding national innumeracy.  So-called balanced reports of ‘on this hand, but on the other hand’ completely miss the amassing evidence for the systemic labor problem in these pre-Singularity years.  Here there is no ‘on the other hand’ – the creation of 163,000…

  • Transhumanism, Cosmism, and the Singularity

    George Rebane Last week my son-in-law sent me David Brin’s latest great sci-fi novel, Existence.   I couldn’t help but immediately put it into my reading stack.  Like most of you who frequent RR, I read several books concurrently, and Brin’s description of the state of the world in mid-century was something I had to know…

  • New People, New Jobs

    George Rebane The systemic and growing unemployment in these pre-Singularity years is an ongoing topic on RR, and a stringently ignored social phenomenon by our political elites of all stripes.  A graphic that illustrates this unemployment growth is the graphic below showing how manufacturing activity varies over time along with employment in the sector. Note…

  • Wireless Communication Breakthrough

    George Rebane A major breakthrough in wireless communication was announced by the University of Waterloo, Canada.  ACM reports that Dr A.K. Khandani and his team have demonstrated (and patented) a full-duplex, single channel methodology for wireless communication that promises to revolutionize all wireless communications.  Full-duplex means the ability to concurrently transmit and receive at the…

  • Knowledge Engines

    George Rebane Part of our rush toward Singularity involves the web becoming ‘smarter’.  In case you haven’t noticed, search engine technologies are rapidly evolving from providing ‘information’ to becoming so-called knowledge engines.  Wolfram Alpha was an early one into this functionality, and it is now being joined by Google’s Knowledge Graph Microsoft will soon upgrade…

  • Singularity Signposts – The Coming Virtual Cloud

    George Rebane Today it is very difficult to reconfigure networks because you have to deal with hardwired components like routers, switches, and servers which have been manufactured by network suppliers like Cisco and Juniper to handle the stream of data packets in their own specific ways.  Modifying a network is a nightmare of hardware reconfiguration…

  • Super-Turing Computation is Coming

    George Rebane Kurzweil reports that computer scientist Dr Hava Siegelmann (Univ of Mass, Amherst) “is translating her 1993 discovery of what she has dubbed 'super-Turing' computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers." "This model…

  • TechForum2012 inaugurates a new community event

    George Rebane This afternoon TechForum2012 passed into history as a wonderfully successful new type of luncheon speaker series focusing on the accelerating technologies that will affect all of us in how we work, play, learn, live long, and prosper.  The event was sponsored by the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation to support its ongoing and…

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