This will not be an invasion of Intelligent Machines, but rather it will be an expression of our own Civilization.
- Ray Kurzweil
Our Civilization: Robotics
CNN PRESENTS
REEM B
UAE Based Company Unveils New Humanoid + Video
SEAGLIDER
Archive for November 1, 2008
Charlie Rose – SACHS STOP HUNGER IN 10 YEARS…
“Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University / Special Adviser to UN Secretary /// Rodney Brooks, Director, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory / Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, MIT / Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, iRobot; Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher & Group Manager, Adaptive Systems & Interactions Group, Microsoft Research; Ron Brachman, Director, Information Processing Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / President, American Association for Artificial Intelligence”
Plumpy’nut
Transhumanist Pioneer:
Listen to =>FM2030<=
Produced by James Hughes
A UCLA professor F.M. Esfandiary, or known as FM84 and FM2030 was to this blog author a guiding light who held wild discussion pot luck parties in his Westwood condo after every evening class called “The Next 20 Years”.
Review his many papers now on line at:
The New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division
F. M. Esfandiary / FM-2030 Papers
1943-2000
Of course, the future can best be told by reviewing the past events for lesson and insights. Without clear introspection and analysis one is without a viable vision of what is to come.
“Skeptics Society Distinguished Lecture Series.
How societies choose to fail or succeed. The Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel examines the downfall of some of history’s greatest civilizations. ..What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?”
by: Jared Diamond
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
