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3:16 The Prototype Official Teaser Trailer #1 (2013) - Andrew Will Sci-Fi Movie HD by movieclipsTRAILERS 613,131 views

Day 3 of IBM Impact 2010, the premier conference for Business and IT professionals. May 2-7, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. Category:

The World Technology Network (WTN) in association with TIME magazine presents the New York Premiere of Ray Kurzweil's documentary film "The Singularity is Near" June 24

"rough cut to the feature film about AI, robots, the singularity, and the 21st century"

In a world of rapidly accelerating change, from iPads to eBooks to genetic mapping to MagLev trains, we can't help but wonder if technology is our servant or our master, and whether it is taking us in a healthy direction as a society.* What forces drive the steady march of innovation?* How can we build environments in our schools, our businesses, and in our private lives that encourage the creation of new ideas--ideas that build on the new technology platforms in socially responsible ways?Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson look at where technology is taking us. One of the co-founders of Wired Magazine, Kelly's new book, What Technology Wants, makes the argument that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Johnson's new book, Where Good Ideas Come From, explains why certain spaces, from 18th-century coffeehouses to the World Wide Web, have an uncanny talent for encouraging innovative thinking.

bigthink - April 28, 2009 - Futurist Ray Kurzweil details the technology timeline leading up to 2029 including the downsides to Singularity.