Sunday, January 20, 2013

Is the Singularity Still Near? By Walter Russell Mead.

Is the Singularity Still Near? By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, January 20, 2013.

The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. By Vernor Vinge. VISION-21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace. NASA, March 30-31, 1993. Also find it here, here, and here.

Tribute to John von Neumann, 1903-1957. By Stanislaw Ulam. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, May 1958.

Neumann on the singularity [p. 5]:

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

Technological singularity. Wikipedia.

2013: What *Should* We Be Worried About. Symposium. Edge.