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This Week in the Future, August 8-12, 2011
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Look at all this amazing stuff on earth! Olympic-level sprinters with no legs, mothers with superhuman strength, and gangsta-rapping sparrows, among so much else--and it all might have come from space.
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- Double-Amputee Sprinter Oscar Pistorius Will Be First Amputee to Compete in the World Championships
- FYI: Can a Woman Really Lift a Car Off Her Pinned Child?
- Video: This Morning's Solar Flare Was the Biggest Seen In Years
- Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space
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- Archive Gallery: A Vintage Guide to Enjoying Your Summer Vacation
- Why Baccarat, the Game of Princes and Spies, Has Become a Target for High-Tech Cheaters
- Spy vs. Spy: Casinos Can't See The Cameras Hidden Up Gamblers' Sleeves
- A Personal Beer Brewery That Spouts Pro-Quality Suds In A Week
- NASA Puts Its Money on Quantum Communications, Plasma Propulsion, and Other Future Tech
- Scientists Create Sperm-Free Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria
- Computer Models Show that Towing an Iceberg to a Drought Area Could Actually Work
- Exploring the Serious, Complicated Relationship Between People and Objects Through Art
- NYPD Creates Facebook-Police Task Force to Mine Social Media for Clues
- Video: Testing Project Enclosures Under Extreme Conditions (Read: Fire, Water, and Smashing)
- DARPA's HTV-2 Launches, Contact Lost, Status of Mission Remains Unclear [Updated]
- U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron Wants a Master Kill-Switch for Social Networks
- 'Epidermal Electronics' Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo
- Testing the Goods: The Midnight/Shot, a Pocket-Sized Infrared Camera
- Archive Gallery: A Century of Ambitious Amphibious Vehicles
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Hey Popsci Its me Ray Kurzweil, yes the real one. Anyway I was wondering if you guys could do an article on the coming Technological Singularity? You could maybe even give it the centerfold. Just talk about it and give perpective on it. I'd be very much obliged thanks Popsci.
The Singularity is Near.
Well, guess I am the first really real person to comment. Unless Ray is the real Ray Kurzweil, somehow that reminds me of a song.
Not much to say about this week (it was slow in some ways, though great progress).
Ray, the technology singularity is far from near. Computers are awesome at doing what we tell them, and AI has come a long ways, but we can still only imitate imagination in computers. Until that point, we can predict technology and the future, and computers will only be doing what we teach them to do. Most technology finally coming to fruition was predicted in the 80s and 90s. When we get to the point where possibilities are thought of weeks before they become a reality, then I would agree to the singularity becoming a reality.