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The Digital Revolution Is Over... Or Not

Oren Frank | Posted 05.21.2013 | Technology
Oren Frank

Enough with your "Digital revolution, ever-changing technology world." There's nothing new under our digital skies.

Dregs: Five Videos of Future Reality

Michael Molina | Posted 03.19.2013 | Comedy
Michael Molina

Where reality shows falter, dregs take hold. As these five videos will demonstrate, prophets on YouTube have brought back from future times the evolution of humans in entertainment.

Cara Santa Maria

Is The Singularity Near?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 12.20.2012 | Science

In a nutshell: the singularity marks a moment when technology trumps the human brain, and the limitations of the mind are surpassed by artificial inte...

Machines Will Outsmart Humans. We Better Be Ready

XPRIZE | Posted 02.18.2013 | Technology
XPRIZE

By Federico Pistono Federico Pistono is alum of Singularity University's graduate studies program. His book Robots Will Steal Your Job, but that's OK...

Reality Is in the Context of the Beholder

Jason Silva | Posted 01.17.2013 | TED Weekends
Jason Silva

2012-11-16-genericvidpullWe can never really know anything outside of its context, even things we are looking at with our eyes. After gasping at how easily our eyes can be fooled, I found myself thinking of the role of context in many other situations.

Koyakatsi: Enter the Civilization of Light With Director Ayoub Qanir

Jason Silva | Posted 12.18.2012 | Entertainment
Jason Silva

A potential break in the human continuum serves as the backdrop to filmmaker Ayoub Qanir's latest film project, Koyakatsi, equal parts science and art -- a mind-bending marriage of grit, fantasy and style.

Singularity & Women@TheFrontier Kick Off Designing the Future

Renee Blodgett | Posted 10.07.2012 | Women
Renee Blodgett

The programĀ "Designing the Future 2012",Ā brought together some of today's female game-changers who are designing the future and disrupting the status quo.

Will Robots and Automation Make Human Workers Obsolete?

Martin Ford | Posted 08.18.2012 | Business
Martin Ford

PBS News Hour recently had a special on the main topic I've been writing about here on The Huffington Post and elsewhere: unemployment and inequality caused by technology and, in particular, automation.

WATCH: Amazing 'Smart Sand' Automatically 'Clones' Any Object

Posted 04.03.2012 | Science

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/02/2012 04:39 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Two MIT researchers are working on creating "smart ...

TED and TEDActive Offer Immersive Inspiration and Radical Insight

Jason Silva | Posted 05.07.2012 | Impact
Jason Silva

"He who speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthralls and overpowers, while at the same time he lifts the idea he is trying ...

WATCH: Could Robot 'Apocalypse' Wipe Out Humans?

Posted 02.24.2012 | Science

By: Adam Hadhazy, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor Published: 02/24/2012 12:48 PM EST on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's...

Artificial Brains: Not in This Century

Mark Changizi, Ph.D. | Posted 04.03.2012 | Science
Mark Changizi, Ph.D.

Building artificial brains may be a part of our future -- though I'm not convinced -- but for the foreseeable, century-scale future, I see only fizzle.

The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine

Lynne Davidson | Posted 01.17.2012 | Technology
Lynne Davidson

This year things changed. This year people spoke about things that have actually happened. Things, which just a short while ago, were the stuff of speculation and science fiction. It looks like we will look back at 2011 as the year when the Singularity actually began.

I'm Planning My 150th Birthday Party -- Today!

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 12.04.2011 | Technology
Steve Rosenbaum

It used to be the stuff of science fiction, the idea that we could 'cheat death' and live well past what we now think of as a natural human lifespan. ...

The Beginning of Infinity

Jason Silva | Posted 12.04.2011 | Arts
Jason Silva

INSPIRATION: This video below is inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch's new book, The Beginning of Infinity. We hope it moves yo...

In the Cloud, No One Can Hear You Scream

Mark Morford | Posted 11.07.2011 | Technology
Mark Morford

Have you seen the future? Have you felt its hot, Wi-Fi enabled breath on your nervous and sweaty neck? Don't worry: You will. The future, in case you didn't already know, is all about the cloud.

Where Is Our iCloud for Medicine?

Max Lugavere | Posted 10.25.2011 | Technology
Max Lugavere

Why are medical records -- simultaneously one of the most powerful resources and biggest sources of frustration for anyone trying to get a whole-systems view of their health -- stuck in the analog and disorganized at best?

The Performing Philosophers

Jason Silva | Posted 10.19.2011 | Media
Jason Silva

There is a freshness and spontaneity to this art form, with its free-associative ruminations and ecstatic diatribes chasing aliveness, wonder and awe wherever they may be.

On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"

Jason Silva | Posted 09.17.2011 | Impact
Jason Silva

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive." [...] "...by some strange, unknown...

The Imaginary Foundation Says "Great Art Expands the Way We See"

Jason Silva | Posted 09.13.2011 | Arts
Jason Silva

The following is an Interview with The Director of The Imaginary Foundation, (reposted with permission from The Imaginary Foundation from a recent fea...

Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere

Jason Silva | Posted 08.30.2011 | Technology
Jason Silva

In Darwin's Pharmacy, the transhumanist philosopher Richard Doyle focuses on his favorite technology: the psychedelic, "ecodelic" plants and chemicals -- read: drugs -- that can help make us process more information.

The Singularity is Here

Jason Silva | Posted 08.19.2011 | Technology
Jason Silva

Ray Kurzweil's fascinating extrapolations concerning the future of technology have finally gone mainstream.

The 'Transcendent' Singularity is Near

Jason Silva | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Jason Silva

Barry Ptolemy's film, Transcendent Man, is the absolute best cinematic exploration of Ray Kurzweil and his paradigm shifting ideas.

Hogwash About the Singularity Is Here

Neil S. Greenspan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Neil S. Greenspan

There is no basis at present for believing that medical interventions based on postulated but not-yet-realized nanobots will perform their duties without the side-effects associated with every other therapeutic agent ever employed.

Ray Kurzweil Has Seen the Future, and the Machine Is Us (VIDEO)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Alex Pasternack

If you haven't already downloaded the article into your brain, the New York Times blew the cover on the trans-humanist movement this weekend, just as ...