The Telegraph Was America's First Singularity
Technological leaps and political upheaval go together like spaghetti and meatballs.
Singularity
Elon Musk Is Wrong about Artificial Intelligence and the Precautionary Principle
The Tesla and SpaceX founder "summons the demon" of regulation.
Zuckerberg and Musk Aim to Make Telepathy a Reality
Fourth Amendment privacy is more important once our thoughts are stored outside our wetware.
Ronald Bailey Comments on The Age of Em at Cato Tomorrow
Come by at 11 am Tuesday, June 7 to hear author Robin Hanson and me.
Billions of Artificial Robot Brains Take Over the World: New at Reason
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Computers as Oracles: True Answers We Won't Understand
DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy
Venezuela Bans GMOs, Utopia via the Borg Collective, and Cancer: Bad Luck or Environment?
A scitech research and policy roundup for January 6, 2016
How Artificial Stupidity Can Kill Us All
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
Declare Your Independence…from Evolution! Here Comes The Singularity and Transhumanism
RU Sirius and Jay Cornell have literally written the book on what's coming next in self-directed evolution.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Transhumanism and the Singularity…
...but were afraid to ask. Q&A with R.U. Sirius & Jay Cornell, authors of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism & the Singularity.
What "Out of Control" Biohacking Means for the Future
Q&A With Disinformation Encyclopedia Authors R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell
The Blockchain: A Supercomputer for Reality
"Everything that can be decentralized, will be decentralized."
The Singularity as Farce
Two novelists produce a cask-strength science-fiction comedy.
The Case for Enhancing People
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey argues for using biotech, nanotech, and infotech to enhance human physical, intellectual, and emotional capabilities
Homesteading on the High Seas
Floating Burning Man, "jurisdictional arbitrage," and other adventures in anarchism