Love this. In the new working paper, “The Global Productivity Slump: Common and Country-Specific Factors,” Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, and Kwanho Shin examine the issue of slowing productivity ...

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in ...

A modest prediction: We’re entering a period when speculation about an approaching Technological Singularity will exceed its turn-of-the-century, Internet Boom peak. And for that, you can thank (or ...

The journey to transformative breakthroughs often follows this familiar pattern and this month may well be remembered as an inflection point in the acceleration toward real-time proving of transaction ...

The singularity is not here yet, but it will arrive very soon. The economic impact of the singularity may be devastating unless governments and central banks do something about it. Nothing is ...

On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...

John Arsneault is the CIO of the law firm Goulston & Storrs and the founder of venture capital company Portfolio X. In 2005, Ray Kurzweil published The Singularity Is Near, in which he borrows the ...

"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The six ...

Ray. Yes. The movie is called “The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future.” The A-line documentary has me interviewing 20 big thinkers on their ideas about the future, and their ideas on ...

In Car Talk's version of our dystopian future, all cars are designed by the French, with wiring by the British and emissions systems by Volkswagen. In Kathy's dystopian present her Chevy is already in ...