Year: 2022

THE SUPER-PHENOMENAL DR JAMES MARTIN, founder of Texas Instruments and NEC, among others. "His book, The Wired Society famously earned him a nomination for a Pulitzer prize. "But my sphere changed significantly after 9/11. I was already interested in the problems of the planet, so I stopped working on computers and IT and started to focus my efforts on the big problems of the planet". This resulted in Martin's latest book The Meaning of the 21st Century and was turned into a film."" " http://lnkd.in/bvedczB View in LinkedIn

HE WROTE OVER 100 TEXTBOOKS, more than any other human being. Everything he did was in the superlative category. Innovator, entrepreneur, philanthropist, futurist. The extraordinary Dr James Martin. " " http://lnkd.in/b_gKd2P View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO ART AND SCIENCE. "From armpit brie to banana flavoured E.coli, artists and bio-hackers have teamed up to push the frontiers of 'synthetic biology' in a new exhibition. They are one of 25 projects Ginsberg has brought to the Science Gallery in Dublin for Grow Your Own, an exhibition that shows how artists are working with scientists to explore the rapidly expanding field of synthetic biology – the practice of interfering in the design of organic life."" " http://lnkd.in/d3nf-Ym View in LinkedIn

SINGULARITY. Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine: "Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes." " " http://lnkd.in/d7zv_wh View in LinkedIn

SINGULARITY. James Martin: Singularity "is a break in human evolution that will be caused by the staggering speed of technological evolution." " " http://lnkd.in/d7zv_wh View in LinkedIn

SINGULARITY. Ray Kurzweil: singularity is "... a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian nor dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lives, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself."" " http://lnkd.in/d7zv_wh View in LinkedIn

VERNOR VINGE introduced the term Technological Singularity (1986). "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended... (singularity). It is a point where our models must be discarded and a new reality rules. Yet when it finally happens it may still be a great surprise and a greater unknown."" " http://lnkd.in/d7zv_wh View in LinkedIn

SINGULARITY TIMELINE. "Kurzweil predicts the singularity to occur around 2045 whereas Vinge predicts some time before 2030. At the 2012 Singularity Summit, Stuart Armstrong did a study of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI) predictions by experts and found a wide range of predicted dates, with a median value of 2040. His own prediction on reviewing the data is that there's an 80% probability that the singularity will occur between 2017 and 2112."" " http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q View in LinkedIn

TRANSHUMANISM AND SINGULARITY. "Proposed methods for creating superhuman or transhuman minds fall into one of two categories: intelligence amplification of human brains and artificial intelligence. Intelligence augmentation means are numerous, and include bioengineering, genetic engineering, nootropic drugs, AI assistants, direct brain-computer interfaces and mind uploading. The existence of multiple paths to an intelligence explosion makes a singularity more likely; for a singularity to not occur they would all have to fail."" " http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO TO SHAPE OUR ERA. "Just as the second half of the past century was characterized by the impact of the invention of programming in silicon, this century will be shaped at leas as much by the ability to program biology."" " http://lnkd.in/dfatxZm View in LinkedIn