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Whole Brain Emulation

Huippukokouksia

Humanity+ Summit 2010 - Harvardin yliopistossa 12-13. kesäkuuta. Puhujina mm. Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram ja Aubrey de Grey.

Singularity Summit 2010 - San Franciscossa 14-15. elokuuta. Puhujina mm. Ray Kurzweil, James Randi ja Steve Mann.

Ray Kurzweil, That Singularity Guy

People say, “Gee, I don’t want to be a machine.” They’re thinking of the machines they know today, and that’s not the kind of machine I’m talking about. I’m talking about a machine—and we’ll probably need a different word by then—that’s just as subtle and supple and emotional as humans are today, and even more so.

Futuristic mega-projects by Shimizu