Enjoy our coverage of futurist Ray Kurzweil's World Science Festival talk on the Singularity? Then head on over to the IEEE Spectrum, which has a soup-to-nuts news special on the possiblity of change accelerating so rapidly that we become almost powerless to comprehend it or the non-human intelligences it spawns.
Among the experts assembled by the Spectrum -- official publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the folks responsible for standardizing our standards -- are Vernor Vinge, John Horgan, Giulio Tononi and a small army of tech luminaries.
Bookmark the special and read it soon. After all, 2029 could come sooner than expected....
Image: A network map of the internet published last year [pdf] in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Opte Project's images are more suggestively brainlike, but they're also way out of date.
See Also:
- Will the Singularity Make Us Happier?
- Fine, We're Simulations. Now What?
- The Rapture of the Physicists
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