Stephen Long speaks on "What Are The National Security Implications of the Coming Technological Singularity?" at the Singularity University Reunion August 28, 2011 at NASA Ames in Ocean View, California. Kim Solez spoke just after him on "Mainstreaming the Singularity in Universities and Beyond". You can sleep more soundly knowing impressive people like Stephen Long are involved in keeping us humans safe from harm! He has strong and specific ideas about strong Artificial Intelligence, when it will occur, and what we should do about it!

Max More speaks about Transhumanism and the Singularity.

Founder of the Extropy Institute, Max More has written many articles espousing the philosophy of transhumanism and the transhumanist philosophy of extropy, most importantly his Principles of Extropy (currently version 3.11).

In a 1990 essay "Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy", he introduced the term "transhumanism" in its modern sense.

Quotes:
"We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next." — Max More, On becoming posthuman.

Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, Charles Stross delivers the story fans and peers have been expecting with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.

The Singularity is Here - Ken Haase

TEDxBrussels - John Shirley - False Singularities...

This is Hugo De Garis speaking about the future of topological quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and a war over whether to build artificial intellects, at Melbourne University in August 2011. Will humans stay the dominant species?

This was the last ECCO seminar of 2010-2011 (1 July, see http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/149). It is an attempt to combine some of our insights in cognition with Internet Innovation and see how far we can stretch our imagination

Down the rabbit hole. Through the looking glass. A paradigm shift altering everything we thoughts we knew. The technological singularity is coming. Here's some thoughts.

Building Gods - This film by Ken Gumbs tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human artificial intelligence and the possible ramifications. Different individuals with different backgrounds are interviewed on the subject, including a theologian, a philosopher, a brain builder and a cyborg. A wide spectrum of topics are discussed, including trans-humanism, mind-machine mergers, uploading, and artificial super-intelligence.