Using AR it allows visitors to directly influence, play with and manipulate carbon sources…

17-05-2011

How can we use AR to bring emotion and understanding to people? This is a good example of the power of experience. As seen on BBC News and created for the stunning Atmosphere interactive gallery at the Science museum, this is a benchmark Augmented Reality (AR) installation that encourages visitors to explore what makes up and affects the Earth's carbon cycle. By interacting with a...

What is the Singularity?

19-04-2011

Even a great film is better when played in front of the right crowd. Transcendent Man, Barry Ptolemy’s documentary on the life and ideas of futurist Ray Kurzweil, had a special screening at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts on Thursday. The event gathered an audience of several hundred people, many of which had seen the film previously in some form. It wasn’t much of a surprise then...

Academy of Philosophy: The coming Social Singularity

03-04-2011

In an influential paper from 1993, Vernor Vinge argued, drawing from I.J. Goodʼs (1965) notion of the intelligence explosion, that we are quickly approaching a pivotal moment in history, where the advance of technology will become so rapid that we will not be able to predict future events at all. This paper was called "The Coming Technological Singularity." In his paper, Vinge...

Ebocloud, Book review

30-03-2011

Now that social networks have made their deep impacts on the globe, the next wave of sci-fi could trumpet civilizations based upon this new media. If so, Rick Moss could be among the first to help define a new branch of the genre. --Singularity Hub .

In Ebocloud, the social network (named Ebocloud itself) becomes one of the world’s most popular social forums. It does this by rewarding its...

Social singularity group

17-03-2011

My preferred pathway would be to "open source" the singularity, to bring in the eyes and minds of millions of collaborators to examine and co-create the relevant software and models, seeking out flaws and making the code more broadly reflective of a variety of interests. Such a proposal is not without risks. Accidents will happen, and there will always be those few who wish to do others harm....

Vision

16-03-2011

Nowmovement firmly believes that democratized technology will help us partially heal most of the major problems we have today.

We need to use technology for saving the world instead of destroying the world. Social Singularity needs to to go parallel with technological improvements.

Poverty and war and terrorism (the three are linked in his mind) will be reduced by up to 80% by 2035....