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Le thèse de la singularité est née dans les années 1930 puis a pris son essor il y a une vingtaine d’années. Elle a été notamment vulgarisée par Ray Kurzweil en 2005 dans son livre “The singularity is near”. Elle tourne autour du côté inexorable du progrès technologique et notamment informatique et des lois empiriques exponentielles sur lesquelles je m’étais penché dans une autre série d’articles.

Olivier Ezratty , 24/05/2015

One of the things that happens when you write books about the future is you get to watch your predictions fail. This is nothing new, of course, but what’s different this time around is the direction of those failures.

Used to be, folks were way too bullish about technology and way too optimistic with their predictions. Flying cars and Mars missions being two classic—they should be here by now—examples. The Jetsons being another. But today, the exact opposite is happening.

STEVEN KOTLER, 07/02/2015

Can a robot be creative? Advances in cloud robotics—machines connected to supercomputers in the cloud—have given self-driving cars, surgical robots, and other “smart” devices tremendous powers of computation. But can a robot, even one supercharged with artificial intelligence, be creative? Will a mechanical Picasso paint among us?

Transhumanists envision a day when technology will allow humanity to become so advanced that sickness, disease, poverty and war will essentially be eradicated..

Micael Snyde, 14/05/2014

Socrates of Singularity 1 on 1 interviews Alexander Hayes about drones, wearable technology, surveillance and human interatactions with modern and future technology, published on Feb 21 of 2014.

You've probably heard of a concept known as the Technological Singularity — a nebulous event that's supposed to happen in the not-too-distant future. Much of the uncertainty surrounding this possibility, however, has led to wild speculation, confusion, and outright denial. Here are the worst myths you've been told about the Singularity.

There is indeed good reason to fear the rise of the cyborgs. After all, they’re us. Who said the universe didn’t have a sense of humor?

Kurt Andersen wonders: If the Singularity is near, will it bring about global techno-Nirvana or civilizational ruin?

Kurt Andersen, 26/11/2014

Today, artificial intelligence is coming out of the shadows and just about every major tech company has an active artificial intelligence program. From Apple’s Siri to IBM’s Watson to literally hundreds of other applications under development, thinking machines are beginning to permeate our everyday lives.

Greg Satell, 26/05/2014

What is Transhumanism? This week’s blog is an in-depth reflection of this remarkably close-to-realization technology, and the worldview, risks, money and people behind it

Foster and Kimberly Gamble, 03/05/20141

Well beyond the phone, we’re seeing machines do incredible things, from dismantling bombs all the way to to delivering tacos. But the phone is perhaps the simplest way for anyone — from a farmer in Minnesota to a student in Afghanistan — to see the real power of the Singularity in our everyday lives. Rather than living in fear of the machines taking over, let’s embrace the incredible positive change that can come from it and make sure that we do our part to channel these new capabilities for the greater good.