Virtual reality via nanobot injection? Ray Kurzweil says it’s the future
Virtual reality has long promised a way to create an immersive illusion so convincing you can’t tell the fake from the real. Futurist Ray Kurzweil says it’s that kind of virtual reality will make virtual travel possible. Not in the way you might expect, with a super-realistic display creating faux imagery on a screen or a pair of goggles. But instead by injecting nanobots into your brain.
Kurzweil speculates in an interview with Good magazine that… Continue Reading
The Singularity is near — and it has a university
It seems like everyone is talking about the Singularity these days. There’s a Singularity Institute, a Singularity Summit, and even Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner predicts that the singularity will arrive by 2050. Now the singularity has its own institute of higher learning, appropriately dubbed Singularity University, founded by Peter Diamandis (chairman of the X Prize Foundation) and inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, who popularized the idea in his book “The Singularity is Near.”
The Singularity, for… Continue Reading
FatKat to use quant investing to help you pick stocks
FatKat is the latest company aiming to make sense of the exploding amount of information on the Web and elsewhere to help you make better investment decisions.
It has yet to launch, but the Wellesley Hillis, Mass. company is worthy of mention because it builds on work by technologist Ray Kurzweil, who has given substantial thought about future trends. It is also backed with $2 million from some well-known investors, including Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod… Continue Reading