Singularity links

Links for Tech

10 links showing existing technologies that are precursors to the coming union between humanity and machines (Singularity).

 >1  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html

>2   http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden.html

>3   http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html

>4  http://www.ted.com/talks/eythor_bender_demos_human_exoskeletons.html

>5  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dean_kamen_the_emotion_behind_invention.html

>6  http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kraft_medicine_s_future.html

10 links that explain transhumanism and the exponential growth of technology:

>1  http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

>2  http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evolves.html

>3  http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html

>4  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.html

>5  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/gregory_stock_to_upgrade_is_human.html

>6 http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/nick_bostrom_on_our_biggest_problems.html

>7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdzepK-LVtU

Space and physics:

>1  http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html

>2  http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time.html

>3  http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_carroll_on_the_arrow_of_time_part_2.html

>4  http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html

Anthropology:

>1  http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html

>2  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.html

Medicine:

>1  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alan_russell_on_regenerating_our_bodies.html

Ideas, innovation and creativity:

>1  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html

>2  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html       (coffee shop)

Intelligent people to watch:

>1 Juan Enriquez

>2 Michio Kaku

>3 Natasha Vita-More

>4 Kevin Kelly

As an artist, I have been concerned for some time about the increasing abundance of images and design due to the internet and spread of technology. I wonder what will happen to the value of individual works due to this reality of millions and perhaps billions of images and ideas available at anyone's fingertips, due to the internet. Things could go in many different directions, as is always true of guesses of the future. This 

What a wonderful topic for us humans to discuss. I only wonder if perhaps this prophecy hasn't already come come to pass and become just a way of operating? After all, isn't the dollar just a symbol of credit that is subject to interpretation and perpetual, temporary adjustments? I am skeptical about the idea of a "once and for all day of reckoning" as it seems that the globe is infinitely resourceful at putting endless band-aids on a false system of inequality and excess. Walking has been described as  intentionally falling forward and throwing your foot out to catch yourself over and over.  At the same time, I do agree that something will have to change when looking at the staggering fact of $14 TRILLION in US Debt. It is pretty mind boggling. Only the future will tell. Among other thing, America has been a great experiment in the system of capitalism. People who like to defend capitalism usually like to use rhetoric like "the market will regulate itself" and.....