Kurzweil made a movie called The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About the Future in 2010 based, in part, on his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near.

Premiered in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival, Transcendent Man documents Kurzweil's quest to reveal mankind's ultimate destiny and explores many of the ideas found in his New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity Is Near, including his concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology.

The Singularity Is Near was published in 2005.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of the 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, defines a Singularitarian as someone " who understands the Singularity and who has reflected on its implications for his or her own life ", and estimates the Singularity will occur around 2045.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who predicts the Singularity will occur in 2045, greatly contributed to popularizing Singularitarianism with his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

Neuroimaging technologies, that could deliver the necessary detailed understanding, are improving rapidly, and futurist Ray Kurzweil in the book The Singularity Is Near predicts that a map of sufficient quality will become available on a similar timescale to the required computing power.

| 10, 000, 000, 000, 000 bits ( 1. 25 terabytes ) – capacity of a human being's functional memory, according to Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near, p. 126

Raymond Kurzweil mentions the concept several times in his book The Singularity Is Near ( 2005 ), following a similar train of thought.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines.

A majority of the statements about nanobots eliminating DNA errors and pathogens were emphasized frequently in Kurzweil's futurist book The Singularity Is Near ; published in 2005 by an American publishing company.

In 2006, Barry Ptolemy and his production company Ptolemaic Productions licensed the rights to The Singularity Is Near from Kurzweil.

* Ray Kurzweil, a computer pioneer and self-proclaimed Singularitarian, argues in The Singularity Is Near that the coming Singularity requires that Earth be the first planet on which sentient, technology-using life evolved.

Peter H. Diamandis ( pronounced ) ( born May 20, 1961 ) is an American engineer, physician and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, the co-founder and chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think.

Ray Kurzweil discusses these topics at further length in his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near.

* Jacob D. Bekenstein, " Is the Cosmological Singularity Thermodynamically Possible?

In The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil questioned the regulation of potentially dangerous technology, asking " Should we tell the millions of people afflicted with cancer and other devastating conditions that we are canceling the development of all bioengineered treatments because there is a risk that these same technologies may someday be used for malevolent purposes ?".

Kurzweil elaborates on his views in his books The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near.

In February 2007, Ptolemaic Productions acquired the rights to The Singularity is Near, The Age of Spiritual Machines and Fantastic Voyage including the rights to Kurzweil's life and ideas for the film Transcendent Man.

In his book The Singularity is Near, Kurzweil makes a detailed critique of Smalley's views on nanotechnology.

In the introduction to his book, Goertzel says that estimates of the time needed before a truly flexible AGI is built vary from 10 years to over a century, but the consensus in the AGI research community seems to be that the timeline discussed by Ray Kurzweil in " The Singularity is Near " ( i. e. between 2015 and 2045 ) is plausible.

Kurzweil has also directed his own adaptation, called The Singularity is Near, which mixes a documentary with a science-fiction story involving his robotic avatar Ramona's transformation into an artificial general intelligence.

Both Frank J. Tipler in his 1994 Omega Point Theory, and Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book The Singularity is Near, have suggested that the human race will soon ( by the mid 21st century ) evolve into transhuman immortal humanoid robots which will work to eventually turn the entire universe into a gigantic supercomputer.

* Doctor Who: Singularity ( 2005 )

In the book Milhamoth HaShem, one finds that possibly the most fundamental issue the Dor Daim had ( and have ) with the popularly accepted understanding of Kabbalah concerns the absolute transcendent Singularity / Oneness of the Creator and the laws against avodah zarah ( forbidden forms of devotion / idolatry ).

* Singularity. com, including reviews of the book and articles about Kurzweil

Bill Hibbard is also author of the book Super-Intelligent Machines and several articles about the Technological Singularity.

In his book The Singularity is Near he focuses on whole brain emulation using conventional computing machines as an approach to implementing artificial brains, and claims ( on grounds of computer power continuing an exponential growth trend ) that this could be done by 2025.

" For his French publisher he has recently completed a book about the future interfacing of biology and technology and the notion of The Singularity, as developed by Ray Kurzweil.

Charles Stross's books Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise make use of " causal channels " which use entangled particles for instantaneous two-way communication.

Hofstadter was also an invited panelist at the first Singularity Summit, held at Stanford in May 2006.

Molecular nanotechnology is one of the technologies that some analysts believe could lead to a Technological Singularity.

A major layoff at the company occurred in August 2009 after the financial failure of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the poor performance of Wolfenstein, followed by another in October 2010 after delays with Singularity.

In 2006 he returned to the Bay Area, where he has been a Senior Research Fellow at IMM, a faculty member at Singularity University, and a Board member of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

The series deals with the group's attempt to unravel the truth behind the Decimation and its aftermath, getting involved with the events of Marvel's crossover Civil War, fighting with Singularity Investigations, and dealing with Madrox's powers and their consequences.

Singularity University hosts their leadership and educational program at the facility.

See Singularity theory for general discussion of the geometric theory, which only covers some aspects.

* § 31. 2 The nonsingularity of the gravitational radius, and following sections ; § 34 Global Techniques, Horizons, and Singularity Theorems

* Endgame: Singularity is an open source game where the player is AI, whose goal is to attain technological singularity / apotheosis.

* An IEEE report on the Singularity.

American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G. I.

He co-founded the nonprofit Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence ( SIAI ) in 2000 and continues to be employed as a full-time Research Fellow there.

This approach has been implemented in JXOS, Unununium as well as Microsoft's Singularity research project.

There is some similarity here to Trevor Wishart's community pieces like Forest Singularity.

While frequently focused on how the concepts of " Transhumanism " and " Singularity " will eventually overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature, Cyberpunk subverts this to describe the Dystopian side about should a civilization " self-destruct " in the process achieving Type-I status.

In computing, ( directory ) is a command used for file and directory listing, specifically in the command line interface ( CLI ) of these operating systems: RT-11, CP / M, VMS, DOS, OS / 2, Singularity, and Microsoft Windows.

Therefore, even if the computer components responsible for simulating a brain were not significantly smaller than a biological brain, and even if the temperature of these components was not significantly lower, Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence calculates a theoretical upper bound for the speed of a future artificial neural network.