Singularity Ahead

Recent Airship Coverage

2011-09-06T19:10:00.006+01:00

Airships have been making news recently -

Wired has a post about Hybrid Air Vehicles first commercial contract for airships that will deliver supplies to remote mining communities in Canada.

Reuters has video of Lockheed Martin's recent airship developments.

The Sydney Morning Herald has a post (with video) on NASA looking at airships. This article points to an article (also with video) over at the Daily Telegraph.

I think this is important from the "automated factory in the middle of nowhere" concept. Build your robot factory (I think I'll call it an "autofab" - robot factory implies it makes robots, not a fully automated plant) in a populated area inside of a bunch of shipping containers that when linked together form your factory. Ship the factory out to the middle of nowhere via airships while you wait for infrastructure to be built - assuming you even need road/rail infrastructure to your autofab as you might be able to get away with just using (automated) airships.

A Couple Of Small Scale Manufacuring Posts

2011-08-29T13:38:00.003+01:00

As well as looking at what's happening to large scale manufacturing, we should also be keeping an eye out at manufacturing at the other end of the spectrum.

Via the O'Reilly Radar RSS Feed (which seems to have different content compared to the O'Reilly Radar Web Site) comes a link to a post called Laptops and Looms by Paul Miller. It's a writeup about a private conference on "creating and supporting digital technologies to start a renaissance of making things". It's well worth the read, as is the article it links to on Wired UK by Russell M Davies - "Make things, not media platforms".

I'm currently withholding judgment on what the impact of maker culture is going to be. I'm torn between it becoming a major part of all our lives and it never becoming more than a drop in the ocean providing jobs for a few highly talented craftsmen. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

Foxconn and Robots

2011-08-29T11:57:00.002+01:00

While Foxconn's increasing it's use of robots first hit my radar a short while ago, this article goes into a bit more detail:

Foxconn Stepping Up Robot Replacement for Human Workers in China

I'm starting to wonder how long it's going to be before most large scale manufacturing moves out into unpopulated, unused areas like deserts. If you don't need people then you don't need to be where people are, and where people are tends to be expensive. Infrastructure would need to be built and run, but when that can be done for less than the cost of land in populated areas then expect to see the desert "bloom".

I also wonder how long before Chinese politicians start making futile promises to bring jobs back.

The Day The World Ends

2007-06-21T10:32:00.000+01:00

The Daily Mail (of all places) has a short story (it's not news, it's really a short science fiction story) about The Day The Worlds Ends. Here's a spoiler (rot 13 for the text then subtract 1 and then divide by 2 for the numbers) Sevqnl, Znepu 27, 4131. It's what I would call a "Dark Singularity" story, where all powerful AI run amok. Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil even get a mention.

It's not the best Dark Singularity short story ever, but then it is a newspaper or, at least, a newspaper's web site so you don't often expect works of fiction (cue Daily Mail jokes).

JPL Release Open Source Robotics Software

2007-06-21T10:17:00.000+01:00

JPL have announced they are realising CLARAty, an open source framework for robotic software development. It include 44 software modules, and according to the press release:

Primary functionality in these modules includes math infrastructure, rotation matrices with Euler angles, quaternions, and coordinate transformations (interoperable homogeneous and quaternion transforms). It also includes the coordinate frame infrastructure that connect transformations and mechanisms with moving parts. Additionally, you will find mechanism models for wheeled, legged and hybrid vehicles. Other modules include device and device group infrastructure with support for generic digital and analog I/O, cameras, and motors. Several modules in this release provide vision infrastructure for images, color images, camera models, 3D point cloud, and surface normal image representations.

Tesco Queue Monitoring

2007-06-15T12:40:00.000+01:00

Computing reports on a very Manna-esque development at Tesco - the use of thermal imaging and predictive till management systems to calculate the likely length of till queues in 5 to 30 minutes, in order to alert staff of upcoming demand and also to free staff to restock shelves and tidy up.

Older report

Cultured Neural Memory Chip

2007-06-14T13:48:00.000+01:00

Scientific American has a report on Israeli researcher who have successfully developed a cultured neural cell memory chip.

From the article

"The main achievement was the fact that we used the inhibition of the inhibitory neurons" to stimulate the memory patterns, says physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob, senior author of a paper on the findings published in the May issue of Physical Review E

via Friend Or Foe

Battlefield Extraction Robot

2007-06-11T18:45:00.000+01:00

Medgadget is among the many sites reporting
on BEAR, the Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot, designed to get wounded soldiers out of the battlefield (something that you may have guessed from the name)

ps. We're back, with field classes and most of the exams now behind us.

The Semantic Robotic Vision Challenge

2007-03-13T13:10:00.000Z

There will be a contest at the The Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - which is a sort of "robot treasure hunt". Robots will be given a list of items that are in an arena, the robots will look each item up on the web (via, for example, Google images) and then proceed to try and find that object in the arena.

Via Robot Gossip as linked to from Communist Robot

Nanotech In The Food Industry

2007-03-07T13:18:00.000Z

Food Production Daily.com has an article entitled "The evolution of the nanotech revolution", detailing the advances in the use of nanotech in the food industry.

Already, nanotech is being used to bind Vitamin A, Iodine and Iron in salt given to school children in Morocco. In Switzerland, nanotech has been used to stop the greying of chocolate, giving chocolate a longer shelf life. Looking forward, "Active Packaging", where the packaging interacts with its contents to increase shelf life and nano-additives (additives that increase shelf life or product quality) are expected to be some of the main advances in the near future.

Expert System Found Guilty Of Practicing Law

2007-03-07T12:36:00.000Z

Wired has a post on how an Expert System has been ruled to effectively be practising law without a licence. From the article:

(The) system touted its offering of legal advice and projected an aura of expertise concerning bankruptcy petitions; and, in that context, it offered personalized -- albeit automated -- counsel. ... We find that because this was the conduct of a non-attorney, it constituted the unauthorized practice of law.

via: Technovelegy

Google's Sneakernet

2007-03-07T12:25:00.000Z

The BBC has a report on how Google is running a sneakernet for scientific data. Google send out hard drives to scientists, who then send the drives containing scientific data (which is some cases has reached 120TB - far too much data to be sent across current networks) back to Google. Google hold on to a copy of the data and also send the data back out to other scientists.

Improving Google's Translation

2007-03-04T22:46:00.000Z

According to the Official Google Blog, there is now a feedback mechanism for Google's web page translator, where users can suggest a better translation to help Google learn to translate better. From the post:

We have a system that can learn to translate better if we know where the problems are. In the past, there was no way to tell us about problem translations. Now there is. Next time you see a sentence that makes you go "hmmm," just hover over it to display the original text tooltip and click the "Suggest a better translation" link. Tell us what it should have said, and we'll use your suggestion to improve translation quality in future updates to our service.

This feature is available when you use one of the language translation pairs developed by our research group:

* English to/from Arabic
* English to/from Chinese (Simplified/Traditional)
* English to/from Russian
* Chinese (Simplified) to/from Chinese (Traditional)

One thing that really stands out (at least to me) is the choice of languages you can help translate.

Robots On The Rise

2007-03-01T13:50:00.000Z

There have been a few interesting robot developments this week.

First off, is a tea pouring robot from the University Of Tokyo. The Associated Press has an article (an example of which can be found at The Vancouver Sun - but it's all over the net). They have a robot that pours the tea and another robot that serves the tea.

Of more practical interest, is news of the development of the first Dynamically Balancing robot - which means it walks the way we (humans) walk. It balances itself in realtime, so it doesn't require a preprogrammed walk like other bipedal robots (such as Asimo). It also means that it's harder to push the robot over.

Finally, not only are robots rising up, they're plunging down into the deepest known sinkholes. DEPTHX is an autonomous robot designed to explore the depths of the cenote El Zacatón in Mexico. DEPTHX is capable of detecting and avoiding obstacles. A press release is available at Eurkalert.

You have to keep on hacking

2007-02-27T11:58:00.000Z

There's a really interesting article at the NY Times about Steward Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog (which led to the famous WELL BBS) and is the coiner of the phrase "Information wants to be free".

The article describes how Brand has become a heretic in the environmental movement that he helped found, as he is a proponent of technologies such as nuclear power and genetic engineering, and he believes that "mainstream" environmentalism will start to embrace such ideas within the next 10 years.

Mr. Brand divides the environmental movement into two camps - the romantic camp and the scientific camp. At the end of the article, there's this:

Ultimately, there’s no safety in clinging to a romanticized past or trying to plan a risk-free future. You have to keep looking for better tools and learning from mistakes. You have to keep on hacking.

The article is well worth a read.

Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel, Father of Evolutionary Programming, Dies at 78

2007-02-26T22:28:00.000Z

PR Newswire reports that Dr. Lawrence Fogel, the inventory of Evolutionary Programming, has died, age 78 of renal failure.

Potential Treatment For Downs Syndrome

2007-02-26T20:27:00.000Z

The LA Times reports on a potential treatment for Downs Syndrome. The drug, pentylenetetrazole, was able to restore cognitive abilities in mice with Downs Syndrome to normal (though the drug, when given to normal mice, did not increase cognitive ability).

New Zealand To Use AI For Immigration Profiling

2007-02-26T12:10:00.000Z

Stuff.co.nz reports on how the New Zealand Immigration Service are looking to start using a centralized profiling system to evaluate immigrants. Apparently, New Zealand has recently had issues with corrupt human staff members in Thailand - it is hoped that a centralized (as in sitting in New Zealand) automated system will be faster and less prone to bribery.

Planetary Defense Conference

2007-02-26T11:59:00.000Z

One thing that could a stop the Singularity (and most life on the planet) would be a large asteroid impact (and Apophis will be passing closer than the orbit of weather satellites in 2029 - with a possible impact in 2036). However, Spacedaily reports on the agenda for an upcoming Planetary Defence Conference. From the article:

A session on "Deflection Techniques," chaired by Dr. David K. Lynch of The Aerospace Corporation, and a session on "Deflection Missions and Technology," chaired by Dr. Gianmarco Radice of the University of Glasgow, will be held on March 6. These two sessions will explore explosive and non-explosive techniques for deflecting a threatening object and issues associated with executing a mission, including the central question: "Can we get there with today's technology?"

Tissue Engineered Knee Ligaments

2007-02-22T14:26:00.000Z

ABC (the Australian one), has a report (from Agençe France-Presse) about researchers at the University Of Virginia who have successfully grown replacement knee ligaments. At the moment, the researchers are working with rabbits, but (obviously) it's hoped that one day the techniques can be applied to humans.

via: Betterhumans

Ubiko, Fire Decting Robot

2007-02-21T22:05:00.000Z

Gizmodo has a short post (with photo) on Ubiko, a small Japanese robot that detects fires and alerts people when it detects them

Robot Cars

2007-02-19T10:39:00.000Z

It seems like every major news outlet in the English speaking parts of the world are running articles on the future of robot cars - one example at is at the Times and another at the Scotsman. All the articles point to one thing: that by 2030 they will be "a desirable reality".

The reason for this is the speculation put forth by Dr. Sebastian Thrun of Stanford University at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr Thrun is the team leader behind Stanley (the winner of the Darpa Grand Challenge) and Junior (an entrant in the Darpa Urban Challenge).

From the Scotsman article:

He said: "By 2030 we should be able to deploy this technology on the highway, and reliability will exceed that of humans by orders of magnitude."

Google Is Working On AI

2007-02-19T00:37:00.000Z

According to this report at CNET about a speech given by Google's Larry Page at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, Google is working on AI. From the article:

"We have some people at Google (who) are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale," Page said to a packed Hilton ballroom of scientists. "It's not as far off as people think."

Organic Thermoelectrics

2007-02-18T19:57:00.000Z

Researchers at the University Of California, Berkley, have been able to directly generate electricty from heat, by trapping organic particles between metal particles. At the moment, the amounty of electricity being generated is quite small, but does have the potential "promise of low-cost, plastic-like power generators and refrigerators".

via: Slashdot

Advancement In Materials Modeling

2007-02-18T19:43:00.000Z

nanotechwire reports on a new advancement in the modeling of the physical properties of materials (such as their optical properties) coming out of Sandia National Labs. The work is based on an theoretical approach discovered in 1965, the new advances make the theoretical approach a reality.

Nanofibers For Virus Filtration

2007-02-17T10:33:00.000Z

nanotechwire has a report on University Of Queensland research into nanofilters that can be used to filter viruses out of water, air (such as SARS) or even blood (such as HIV).

Software That Tells You What To Wear

2007-02-15T20:07:00.000Z

The Discovery Channel website has an article on an AI programme that tells people what to wear. From the article:

"The style-confused person uses a website database application to enter the scenario immediately or he can supply descriptions and photos about himself and the clothes he already owns. He can use brand names labels (Nike, Armani, Calvin Klein, etc.) and annotate any piece with comments ("These jeans make me look sexy")."

For some reason, I was reminded of the Doctor Who episode that had the robotic versions of Trinny and Susannah (two women who appear on UK TV programmes telling people what to wear).

Singularity Ahead: The Podcast

2007-02-15T19:23:00.000Z

After reading about The Jerusalem Post's podcast, I thought I'd sign Singularity Ahead up to Odiogo's free service for bloggers. So here it is.

The End Of The Radio Newscaster?

2007-02-15T13:11:00.000Z

There's a press release at eMediaWire about the launch of The Jerusalem Post's podcast. While not that interesting a develoment on it's own, it's the technology behind the podcast that's interesting (at least to me). A company called Odiogo generates the podcast from the Jerusalem Post's RSS feed, using a "nearly human sounding" text to speech engine.

I can't help but wonder, how long will it be before broadcast radio news reports get the TTS treatment - especially the short hourly news summary reports that get played on non-news radio stations.

Brain Radio

2007-02-15T10:28:00.000Z

EETimes has a report on a new amplifier, which is an important part of a "brain radio"

The Medtronic system is part of a broad category of neural stimulators, implantable devices that send electrical pulses to areas of the brain to control diseases such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and depression. The paper gave a rare glimpse look inside a next-generation device, revealing design struggles in power management and signal sensitivity.

As for the amplifier itself

The device has a broad range of applications beyond the monitoring of brain waves. It could also be used for pressure and telemetry sensors as well as other bridge devices, Denison said.

Via: KurxweilAI.net

Nanofibres, From Carrots

2007-02-13T12:22:00.000Z

The Scotsman is reporting on a carbon fibre composite material, made from carrots.

The process basically involves taking carrots and breaking them down into small particles using a special mechanical process.

The strong nano-fibres from this carrot "soup" are then extracted so that they can be processed in a variety of ways.

Most of the water is removed and hi-tech resins are added to the mix.

This mixture can then be moulded and heated to make a strong material.

The company are releasing their first product (a fishing rod) next month.

The Brain, In Silicon

2007-02-13T10:45:00.000Z

Just like Kurzweil predicted (and pretty much on schedule, if not a bit early) - neuroengineers at Stanford University are planning to create a silicon model of the cortex. There's a report at Technology Review

via: complexitystudies

Intel's New Chip and The Singularity

2007-02-12T23:16:00.000Z

Many, many places on the internet have reported on Intel's new 80 way, teraflop processor. Time for re-read of Kurzweil's The Law Of Accelerating Returns

Robot garage that parks your car to open in New York

2007-02-12T11:03:00.000Z

The Associated Press reports (link is to the Star Tribune of Casper, Wyoming) on the opening of the first robotic garage in New York City. I'm really, really surprised that it's taken this long for the first one to open up in NYC. I vaguely recall watching an item about robotic garages ages ago - probably in the 1980's on the "Beyond 2000" programme. The article gives some clue as to why it may have taken so long -

The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches.

Volcanoes and Nanotechnology

2007-02-12T10:32:00.000Z

nanotechwire is reporting on "Volcanoes and Nanotechnology" - researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin have used volcanic rock to produce carbon nanotubes and fibers. From the article

The researchers pulverize the rocks and heat them to 700 °C under a hydrogen atmosphere. This reduces the iron oxide particles to elemental iron. When a mixture of the gases hydrogen and ethylene is directed over the powder, the iron particles catalyze the decomposition of ethylene to elemental carbon. This is deposited on the lava rock in the form of tiny tubes and fibers.

The hope behind this research is to develop an economic way of creating nanotubes and nanofibers.

Mimicking How The Brain Recognizes Street Scenes

2007-02-12T10:26:00.000Z

Medical News Today has a report on "Mimicking How The Brain Recognizes Street Scenes"

This is a report on research carried out at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, where they developed a computer model of how the brain processes street scenes. from the article

Compared to traditional computer-vision systems, the biological model was surprisingly versatile. Traditional systems are engineered for specific object classes. For instance, systems engineered to detect faces or recognize textures are poor at detecting cars. In the biological model, the same algorithm can learn to detect widely different types of objects.

I wonder how long before this work it's way into CCTV camera networks.

Artificial Intelligence Used To Grade Medical School Tests

2007-02-11T16:40:00.000Z

From Information Week -

The Association of American Medical Colleges will use artificial intelligence to score the writing portion of the Medical College Admission Test.

AI In The Pharmaceutical Industry

2007-02-10T15:28:00.000Z

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe has an article on the use of AI in (somewhat unsurprisingly, give the magazine's title) the pharmaceutical industry.

Artificial intelligence-based knowledge discovery has found widespread use in banking, finance and marketing. The ability to discover patterns and relationships in databases has been exploited for fraud prevention, financial forecasting and market segmentation. This paper, however, describes the potential application of similar tools in the pharmaceutical industry and focuses in particular on the opportunity to enhance PAT in generating process understanding for multivariant systems.

Coming Back Soon

2007-02-10T14:55:00.000Z

It's been almost 2 years since the last post. I had planned on writing some software to help manage the finding and filtering of news, but it never happened. But now, Yahoo has released Pipes which, and it delivers a lot of what I was think that software should do. So, if all goes to plan Singularity Ahead will be back up and running soon.

Death could be averted by 'downloaded brains'

2005-05-23T17:23:00.000+01:00

Yahoo are running an AFP story on brain downloading. At the end of the article is

One of the "primary reasons" for such work would be to give computers emotions, Pearson said.

"If I'm on an aeroplane I want the computer to be more terrified of crashing than I am so it does everything to stay in the air until it's supposed to be on the ground."

I'm sorry, but I don't think you need "emotions" for that - if anything, it would probably make things worse - what happens if the airplane is too afraid to fly? Download a copy of "Feel the Fear... and do it anyway" into it?

Robots Prepare For Battle

2005-05-20T10:56:00.000+01:00

Thanks to Robotic Nation Evidence for pointing this one out, The Sentinel of Carlisle, PA, USA is reporting on Cutting-edge robotics head for battle

No gridswarmed fleets of autonomous tanks though.

Stanford and VW's Stanley

2005-05-20T10:41:00.000+01:00

Stanford University and VW have been working on Stanley, a diesel-powered VW Touareg R5 sport-utility. One hopes that as the technology develops they will make an autonomous Beetle. And we all now what name that should have :-)

It's being developed to compete in the 2 million dollar DARPA Grand Challenge - to drive 175 miles across a desert in 10 hours, without a driver.

The ultimate goal, Dupont said, is safer roads as future cars might help their drivers avoid accidents.

I don't mean to sound cynical, but I think the real ultimate goal is to develop robot tanks. Or even Gridswarmed robot tanks.

A quote by Arthur C Clarke (and a bit about Google)

2005-05-20T10:28:00.000+01:00

I doubt a week goes by here without some mention of Google. Anyway, they've lauched a personalized version of the homepage here. On my one, I added quote of the day and today's quote is by Arthur C Clarke, and it somehow seems appropriate for this site.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Watching Star Wars 28 Years Later

2005-05-17T11:07:00.000+01:00

Marshall Brain has written a fun essay on Watching Star Wars 28 Years Later, where he takes delight in pointing out how anachronistic the first film (ie episode 4) is. His anachronisms can be summarized by the statement - "Why in a post singularity civilization would X occur", where X is such things as droids needing to speak to each other instead of communicating wirelessly, or why are there are human guards.

I do have to point out one flaw in the essay and that's that it doesn't take into account The Force. In particular, the reason why humans are soldiers instead of droids is that they are more effective than droids because of the force (look at episode 1, where there were droid soldiers, who proved somewhat ineffective against living fighters) and are easier for the Emperor/Lord Vader to control through the force. And as for why Lord Vader doesn't just upload himself, again he probably could but he would also probably loose his ability to use the force.

'Memory pill' for the forgetful

2005-05-12T12:52:00.000+01:00

The BBC is reporting on a new drug that makes learning and recall easy and might be used to treat jet lag, Alzheimer's and ADHD.

Google Scholar

2005-05-12T12:26:00.000+01:00

A couple weeks back, I had an idea that it would be a good thing if Google started indexing things like peer reviewed journals. I figured such a service would help scientific advancement.

Turns out they have such a service in beta - Google Scholar. It's even got a feature that if you're on campus at a participating university then Google Scholar will provide extra links to that university's library resources.

Monkey thinks robotic arm into action

2005-05-12T11:46:00.000+01:00

MSNBC reports on how University of Pittsburgh researchers have been able to get a monkey to control a robotic arm through thought.

Self Replicating Robots

2005-05-12T11:37:00.000+01:00

Reuters is reporting (ABC News has a copy here) with a more indepth article (with photos and video) over at Wired on how researchers at Cornell Univerity's Computational Synthesis Lab have created self replicating robots.

Nanotechnology cures cancer!

2005-05-09T10:23:00.000+01:00

The Economist is reporting on research that is using nanotechnology to fight cancer.

Nanotechnology combined with superconductivity could pave the way for 'spintronics'

2005-05-09T10:17:00.000+01:00

Physorg.com is reporting on a breakthrough in spintronics. Spintronics is where information is carried by an electron's spin as oppossed to it's charge.

If a reliable way can be found to control and manipulate the spins, these researchers argue, spintronic devices could offer higher data processing speeds, lower electric consumption, and many other advantages over conventional chips--including, perhaps, the ability to carry out radically new quantum computations.

And here's the breaktrough

University of Notre Dame physicist Boldizsar Janko and his colleagues believe they have found such a control technique. Their work, funded by the National Science Foundation through a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team grant, was published in the March 5, 2005, edition of the journal Nature.

Science Museum's Online Nanotech exhibit

2005-05-04T16:35:00.000+01:00

The Science Museum has a pretty good online exhibit about nanotechnology.

Mind-reading machine knows what you see

2005-05-04T13:47:00.000+01:00

New Scientist reports on a device which is capable of remotely measuring brain activity, researchers have shown. The technique can even extract information from subjects that they are not aware of themselves.

Google searches for quality not quantity

2005-05-04T10:37:00.000+01:00

The BBC is reporting on a report in New Scientist on a new patent filed by Google.

The patent (which might explain the TrustRank tradmark recently trademarked by Google), is for a system that compares the track record and credibilty of news sources, and thereby adjust the results displayed by Google News. This is different from the current system where the ranking is based on how recent the news item is, thus a trusted news source would be ousted from the front page for a less reliable source.

Robots to help out blind shoppers

2005-05-04T10:26:00.000+01:00

The BBC is reporting on a robot that will help guide blind shoppers around supermarkets.

Norwegian plans rivals to Nobel science prizes

2005-05-04T10:18:00.000+01:00

Reuters is reporting on Norwegian physicist who is setting up 3 Nobel style prizes (with a USD 1 Million award each) for astrophysics, neuroscience and nanotechnology.

Google and the Singularity

2005-05-03T18:16:00.000+01:00

In the second raydome radio podcast, I put forward my theory that Google will have something to do with the Singularity. I've now got some further evidence for this.

An item on MakeYouGoHmm has an interesting thing said by Google's Larry Page at his speech given at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering's graduation ceremony (as recorded by Adam Herscher).

Finally let me just leave you with two things. Our mission at Google is really to build the ultimate search engine. That means that it would understand everything in the world, it would understand exactly what you wanted when you type the query, and it will give you back exactly what you want. In computer science we like to call that artificial intelligence. That you can type any query into Google and it will always give you the right answer, it will be smart and so obviously that’s not the easiest thing in the world to do, but as we get closer and closer to that. we have real improvements in quality and make Google better…

Welcome To Singularity Ahead

2005-05-03T17:44:00.000+01:00

Welcome to Singularity Ahead, a blog dedicated to the technologies that could help bring on the Singularity.

I've started it because of a long running email debate with one of my oldest friends - Andrew Fish, author and founder of Unrelated Inventions. There is a fundamental disagreement between us, I believe that the Singularity is on it's way, he feels that it's a load of nonsense. Only history will prove one of us right and thus here is the challenge, if the Singularity happens before the end of 2035, I get to say "I told you so", should it not then I shall be on the receiving end of the "I told you so".