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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • Singularity Signposts – Telemedicine on the slow track

    George Rebane The European Space Agency is working on a medical AI called CAMDASS (Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System).  It has a unique augmented reality user interface (UI) that would allow future astronauts to diagnose and treat complex medical cases when they are in space, and especially when they are at distances that…

  • Singularity Signposts – Nano Quadrotors

    George Rebane The advances in robotics, miniaturization, and control are getting scary.  RR has been tracking such developments in these pre-Singularity years.  Take a look at this video of small quadrotor helicopters.  These craft can be controlled manually or by a computer that can fly them individually or in large formations.  And then consider their…

  • New thoughts on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Education (2feb12 update)

    George Rebane A recent study by Vivek Wadhwa of the Singularity University published in the MIT Technology Review reports that older techies start more successful technology based companies than do those still a little damp behind their ears.  This contradicts a long-held myth. The Kaufman Foundation which gathered data for the study states that a…

  • Employment 2022 (Addended)

    George Rebane Here’s a quick back of the envelope look at the employment situation over the next decade when we take into account accelerating technology that increases worker productivity.  GDP growth is taken at the indicated 2.5%/year.  This post is really as a ‘memo to file’ since people have asked me how I come up…

  • Science still says, ‘Creation occurred.’

    George Rebane The best brains in cosmology ranging from Stephen Hawking of Cambridge to Alan Guth of MIT have been trying to munge the equations and the data to come up with some/any kind of support for the proposition that the universe did not have a beginning. NewScientist.com reports in ‘Why physicists can’t avoid a…

  • Singularity Debate – Paul Allen vs Ray Kurzweil

    George Rebane This year’s Singularity Summit again brought out leading thinkers and workers on the progress being made toward that momentous fin de siècle of human development and evolution.  The annual conference prompted Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) and Mark Greaves to write a strong denial on the prospects of a near-term Singularity (here).  This was…

  • DARPA’s Alpha Dog – The Latest Generation

    George Rebane On these pages we have been following the remarkable technological advances in all-terrain walking pack robots of the Big and Little Dog programs (here).  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding this program at Boston Dynamics, the development contractor.  Alpha Dog is the latest generation in this program, and shows a mule…

  • Singularity Signposts – Cognitive Computing Milestone

    George Rebane Yesterday IBM announced the first fruits of its cognitive computing initiative.  It’s a processor chip with an architecture that mimics some of the neural net topology (how neurons hook up to other neurons) of a human brain.  The cognitive computing chip (CCC) from IBM Research shown here is not to be programmed in…

  • Hollywood Synthesized – Another Step Closer

    George Rebane In ‘Avatars – Lauren and Bogie Together Again’ I described the progress toward a new film industry wherein old actors would become immortal and continue to star in new films as long as audiences were willing to pay for them.  Accelerating technology has taken another giant step in this direction as described here in…

  • Singularity Signposts – Running out of processing matter/energy?

    George Rebane There was an interesting exchange on Ray Kurzweil’s website between Kurzweil and a reader with a “disturbing thought” about post-Sinularity trans-humans some day running out of ‘stuff’ on which to store their ever-expanding knowledge base and on which to do the ever more expansive ‘thinking’ that presumably we will then be able to…

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