Last year, I spoke at Ray Kurzweil's Singularity Summit at Stanford, a day-long event about the future of technology and the possibility of a coming Singularity. There were some killer speakers (including my hero Douglas R "Godel, Escher, Bach" Hofstadter).
The technological Singularity — what Ken Macleod called "The Rapture of the Nerds" — is the moment at which it is possible to make a computer that is as smart as a human, and then smarter. The idea is that we will irrevocably change as a species at that moment.
The Singularity Institute has put up full videos and audio from the Summit now — there's some great stuff here.
(Thanks, Tyler!)
