Transhuman Evolution Design Thursday, Sep 29 2011 

This image was created by Aaron Saenz of Singularity Hub. Pretty cool!

Focus Tuesday, Jun 28 2011 

“I used to admire the ability of people to work on many things at once or in succession, but these days I’m much more excited by people who focus intently on just one thing for a long time. It’s not the quantity of things you do, but whether the parts work together to create a good whole.”

Paul Bohm

Extremely High Resolution Realtime Rendering of Grass and Trees: Kévin Boulanger, Creator of Neptune 3D Sunday, Feb 27 2011 

Download link here.

Other videos. Personal homepage of Kévin Boulanger.

Boulanger’s academic website hasn’t been updated in a couple years, this is because he was allegedly tapped to work for EA.

Ken Jennings Gets Cute at the Podium Wednesday, Feb 16 2011 

500 Pictures of Singularity Summit 2010 Available Monday, Nov 22 2010 

Photo by A. Jolly 2010.

My Flickr account contains almost 500 photos of Singularity Summit 2010, more than you could ever want. I mentioned this before in the Singularity Institute newsletter but not here. A special thanks to our photographers, A. Jolly and Anthony Scatchell. Please get in touch with me if you are interested in volunteering for photography next year.

Steven Mann is so cool!

The videos are currently being edited, they’ll be completed over the next few weeks. Sorry for the delay, one of our initial editors backed out of the project. Watch the Vimeo channel for updates. I’ll announce it officially on SIAI blog when some go online.

Total attendance at Singularity Summit 2010 was approximately 620.

For any new readers: the Singularity Summit is put on by the Singularity Institute, which I work for. I co-organize Singularity Summit, assisting our President, Michael Vassar. Everyone at the Singularity Institute cooperates to make the Singularity Summit happen. The Singularity Summit MC is Sean McCabe, previously a close assistant to James Randi.

Leanchoilia superlata from Burgess Shale Saturday, Nov 6 2010 

Nice appendages. Could maybe inspire some robotics.

Google Latitude History Image Wednesday, Sep 15 2010 

Courtesy of Google Latitude, here’s a map of roughly where I’ve been for the last month. Is this cool or what?

Full transparency is coming, so I think it’s plausible to put together maps like this for everyone, whether they like it or not.

Amusing Ourselves to Death Tuesday, Jul 27 2010 




Aldous Huxley and George Orwell… who was right?



New Singularity Summit 2010 Banner Wednesday, Jun 30 2010 

Register today, before prices go up at midnight!

We still have discounted hotel rooms available, for $139/night instead of the usual $199.

Techno-Utopian Artwork Tuesday, Jun 22 2010 

By Robert McCall.

Atmospheric CO2 Levels Over Geologic Time Tuesday, Mar 9 2010 

God is an Alien Scientist Thursday, Feb 18 2010 

Via M[C]S. Apparently the Vatican is OK with belief in ETs. But is it OK if we believe God was an ET and we can summon his powers with the right radio signals? Try asking your local pastor that, and his head will explode.

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