"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Futurist Raymond Kurzweil has a new book coming that spells out why he believes that nanorobots are the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Raymond Kurzweil is a Director for Engineering in the Google with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Speech as a Founder, Chairman and ...

Renowned inventor Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines ) may be technology's most credibly hyperbolic optimist. Elsewhere he has argued that eliminating fat intake can prevent cancer; here, his ...

Dystopian Kurzweil: As Big Tech continues frantically pushing AI development and funding, many users have become concerned about the outcome and dangers of the latest AI advancements. However, one man ...

Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but his liking for all things shiny goes back to the Gameboy he received aged eight (and that he still plays on at family ...

The Singularity movement fails to address the question, Why should man live forever? [Feb. 21]. For a “science” that is so interdisciplinary, it is oblivious to the laws of nature. Humans may well ...

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MEDIA ADVISORY PITTSBURGH—Experts and visionaries in fields ranging from psychology to robotics will gather at Carnegie Mellon University Oct. 19 to explore whether computers will make the world a ...

We’ve all seen the movies. Sometime in a distant future, humans have solved the riddle of aging. The answer usually involves some sort of hard-to-understand science or some kind of mystical magic.