The Singularity Is Near
Utopia Studios WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
Woodstock, NY
09/30/2010, 3:00PM
We live in an era of exponentially increasing advances in artificial intelligence, nano technology, robotics, designer drugs, bionics, and techniques to defeat—and perhaps even reverse—cellular aging. Scientific optimists look forward to a transhuman future when our life expectancy will be dramatically, if not infinitely, extended; when people no longer suffer from disability or disease; when super-intelligent machines will “reproduce” by designing and building their own successors; when the line between humans and computers will increasingly blur, as we “download” our memories and minds into machines and become bionic ourselves. What promises and challenges does this vision of the future hold?
Panelists:
Michelle Byrd
Ray Kurzweil
Martine Rothblatt
Sponsored by Kurzweil Technologies and Terasem Motion Infoculture
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