There was a summit on The Singularity. It's what Ray Kurzweil likes to talk about a lot. It's basically the exponential increase of technology which will reach a point at which acceleration is so high we can only say our entire world has changed. That point is the singularity. Ray says it will be in my lifetime, and even in his (and he is old). But my dear friend Douglas Hofstadter (who organised the summit) is not that optimistic, and i agree with him. In this video he basically tears down Ray's optimism, all while Ray is sitting in front of him (in view). I laughed my ass off. Now to hope Ray is right in that we soon have the technology to live without asses.
Here are more videos from the summit.
