Fusion 2009 in Pictures
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »James Douma, Martin Magnusson and Kennita Watson at Fusion 2009 Fusion 2009 Photoset at Flickr
Gregory Stock: To Upgrade is Human
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »This is Greg Stock speaking at TED in 2003. He is one of the most enjoyable positive futurists to listen to, and presented at last year's Methuselah Foundation event "Aging: The Disease, the Cure, the Implications," which I filmed ...
Yet More BIL
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in BIL, Futurism | 2 Comments »Unconference organizer Bill Erickson has constructed a Media Page on the BIL website where videos from the February conference can be viewed, rated and commented on. Included are newly edited videos on the Automotive X-Prize by Eric Boyd, Practical Applications of ...
Google develops CADIE
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Posted in AGI-09, Artificial Intelligence, Futurism | No Comments »If you've been following my blog, you know that I often mention Google's Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity project. This is a research effort led by Moshe Looks, who developed the meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES) that is utilized by the ...
BIL videos
Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Posted in BIL, Futurism | No Comments »Here is some of what's online from recent conferences I filmed and edited. From Convergence08, a keynote by technology trends forecaster Paul Saffo and longevity panel with anti-aging advocates including Terry Grossman are now online.From the BIL unconference last month, Peter ...
AGI-09 in Pictures
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in AGI-09, Artificial Intelligence, Futurism | No Comments »This past weekend the second conference on artificial general intelligence took place in Arlington, Virginia. AGI is the endeavor to create AI more closely analagous to a human being, in particular our generality over a broad range of capabilities. You can ...
Pokemon Singularitarianism
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in BIL, Futurism | No Comments »This is a video of Joel Grus at BIL explaining why my religion (Pokemon Singularitarianism) is false. If you have a religion, find out why it's false by watching this video. Your Religion Is False from Jeriaska on Vimeo.
BIL in pictures
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in BIL, Futurism | No Comments »Did you miss BIL this year? There will be copious numbers of videos online, from myself and other volunteers of the ad-hoc, no-holds-barred unconference, once the editing has been completed. In the meantime, check out the photoset on flickr. Reichart Von ...
BIL 2009
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »BIL is an ad-hoc conference taking place this weekend in Long Beach for people changing the world in big ways. It's a place for passionate individuals to come together to energize, brainstorm, and take action. Big things happening at BIL this ...
Whistlecars and Robocars Will Save the Planet
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »Robocars can change how we live and work, change our cities, change manufacturing, housing. Crucially in today's world, they also have the potential to make serious inroads on our energy and emissions problems. This talk by Brad Templeton, chairman of ...