August 16, 2003
From Blackout to Singularity

I might be in Palo Alto during this conference. Do I dare go? What are we facing? And why are all these guys smiling?

Accelerating Change Conference 2003

Some of the participants:

Ray Kurzweil
K. Eric Drexler
Howard Bloom

And here's the essay that started it all in 1993, revisited in a spring, 2003 issue of Whole Earth magazine that was only published online:

Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge (pdf)

Posted by Dave at August 16, 2003 06:48 PM