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Kurzweil on coming revolutions in genetics, nanotech and robotics (strong AI)

This is the fourth post in a series summarising the key arguments of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology.  The previous posts were:

Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity and the accelerating pace of progress, Kurzweil predicts personal computers with the power of the human brain by 2025, and Kurzwil predicts [...]

Kurzweil predicts we will create software that emulates the human mind by reverse engineering the human brain

This is the third post in a series summarising the key arguments of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology.  The previous posts were: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity and the accelerating pace of progress and Kurzweil predicts personal computers with the power of the human brain by 2025.

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Kurzweil predicts personal computers with the power of the human brain by 2025

This is the second post in a series summarising the key arguments of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology.  The first post entitled Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity and the accelerating pace of progress can be found here.

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The second idea I’m going to pick out from The Singularity [...]

Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity and the accelerating pace of progress

Over the last 6-9 months American invetor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has had a profound influence on how I see the future and how I run my life today.  His theories on the evolution of technology and its impact on society, and the impact technology can have on our health and longevity today have [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08 http://goo.gl/fb/92whi # @bazv hopefully they will get better with practice! in reply to bazv # Dave McClure on startup investing http://goo.gl/fb/MKYRu # I have abandoned my wifi repeaters in favour of powerline. So far it is much more stable – let's hope it stays that way. # More [...]

More on seed level funding – a response to Paul Graham

As many of you will know Paul Graham has been at the forefront of innovation in small company financing for a couple of years now.  He is the founder of Y-Combinator, a startup accelerator that developed a new model for financing and helping companies at the very earliest stages and which has now been [...]

Dave McClure on startup investing

You might have seen that Dave McClure who has been making seed investments in the US for the Founders Fund and the Facebook Fund over the last twelve months has recently raised his own fund.  In this interview with GigaOM he talks about the sort of things he likes to see in startups and [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01 http://goo.gl/fb/HnHEE # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01 http://goo.gl/fb/Y4Jwu # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01 http://goo.gl/fb/7OZoN # You’ve got to love the BBC http://goo.gl/fb/uzg1l # @DHS thanks. Will correct imminently. in reply to DHS # Dave McClure on the future of consumer internet investing – innovation in Europe lags [...]

Seed funds are emerging in the US, but what of Europe?

On holiday over the last week or so I have been reading a lot of the chatter about seed funds/smaller VC funds in the US and I planned to sit down and digest all of it today and produce some thoughts on parallel developments in Europe.  Unfortunately my day has totally run away from [...]

UK diplomats and embassies to focus more on promoting trade

The FT is reporting today that William Hague, the UK’s Foreign Secretary, is shifting the balance of activity in the Diplomatic Service in favour of commercial activities (and therefore at the expense of political activities).  Ambassadors will be given targets for trade promotion, and be required to tour the UK’s regions to find commercial [...]