SETIcon 2010
"SETIcon brought together noted scientists, science fiction writers, science pundits, amateur astronomers, teachers, and hundreds of people with an interest in the question of life beyond our planet."
Singularity Summit 2011
"In his influential 1993 article the coming technological singularity, Vernor Vinge discussed the possibility that future technology could feed on itself, causing an "exponential runaway" in technological progress: "Developments that before were thought might only happen in 'a million years' (if ever) will likely happen in the next century." In his 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil used current exponential trends in technology to predict the arrival of this Singularity in the next few decades." Read on
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