Ray Kurzweil: Reinventing Humanity

The Author of The Singularity is Near provides an article published in the March-April 2006 edition of Futurist Magazine that summarizes the predictions from his book regarding the near term future of human and technological evolution.

Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?

Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?

Can there really be a theory of everything?

Why there can't be a theory of everything

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

"Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives is a BAFTA winning television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland and BBC Four television documentary in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett talks to physicists and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett— about his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics."

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Update: Computers fail Turing Test

Still a long way to go on the AI front...

Computers at a loss for words.

Intelligent Computers Put to the Test

We are probably at least a few decades away from a computer that can truly pass the Turing test, but some are already trying....

Will the dead twitter by the end of the century?

Cliff Pickover discusses mind uploading and simulated afterlife as he makes a sales pitch for his book on these topics: The Heaven Virus.

The future of gaming is all in the mind

The near future of virtual reality.

Extracts from the final chapter of Fabric of Reality

This excerpt includes commentary and review from Frank Tipler, in response to Deutsch's discussion of Tipler's Omega Point Theory (See "Cosmological Limits on Computation", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 25, 617-661 [1986])

Fabric of Reality

Megascale Engineering

Megascale engineering

..and wikipedia... megascale engineering