technological acceleration . developmental spiral
exponential trends . moore's law
 Accelerating Change Conference 2005 Past events: ACC2004 | ACC2003 |
 Acceleration Studies Foundation |
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 Acceleration Watch |
 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
Resources from ACC2005, ACC2004 and ACC2003:
(Courtesy of Peter Y. Chou)
Accelerating Change 2005 Resources Accelerating Change 2004 Resources Accelerating Change 2003 Resources Books on Technology & Accelerating Change Lecture notes:
Robert Wright's talk Technology and Interdependence:
Nonzero Sumness as the Arc of History ACC2003: Day 1 | Day 2
Resources from Quantum Theology and the Future Mind:
Lecture notes:
John Smart's talk Understanding the Singularity
(Courtesy of Peter Y. Chou) Audio (MP3) recording:
Mark Pesce's talk Terror & Transhumanism
More resources: John Smart. What is the Singularity? 2001. The Developmental Spiral — An Unexplained Physical Phenomenon Verner Vinge:
The Vingean Singularity, BBC h2g2. Hans Moravec. Technological Singularity Equations, 1999. Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil, Eric Drexler, and Robert Bradbury, 2002. Ray Kurzweil:
The Technological Singularity, 1993. Vinge's Singularity Vision Vernor Vinge, online prophet
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. Singularity Analysis: A Series of Educated Guesses Jeff Lawrence. The Future of Processing.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Release date: September 22, 2005 | Pre-order today! |Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever The Human Machine Merger: Are We Headed for the Matrix? The Law of Accelerating Returns, 2001. Many more writings from Kurzweil AI Kurzweil's list of big thinkers Video - Kurzweil's Extropian 5 presentation: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
The Age of Spiritual Machines Chapters: 1 | 6 | 9
Are We Spiritual Machines?:
Ray Kurzweil vs.
the Critics of Strong A.I.
Unpublished article includes analaysis of interaction between
Metcalfe's Law, Gilder's Law and Moore's Law Damien Broderick. The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies, 2002. James Gleick. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, 1999. Also check out James Gleick's 1998 classic Chaos. JF Kincaid. Communications: the driving force behind the accelerating rate of change. Annals Clinical & Laboratory Science 1976;6(4):283-290. James Willis. The accelerating pace of change. BMJ 1988;317, 1731-1732. Lt Col David T. Macmillan. Technology: the catalyst for doctrinal change.
Air University Review, Nov-Dec 1977. Lee RD. Induced population growth and induced technological progress: their interaction in the accelerating stage. Math Popul Stud. 1988;1(3):265-88, 317. From Whole Earth Magazine:
Barbara Molony. Technology & Identity: Is rapidly accelerating technology eroding our sense of who we are? Peter K Haff. Technological Acceleration and Landscape Learning Journeys: Self and Mutually Accelerating Technologies.
Alex Steffen. What Happens When Technology Zooms Off the Chart? (Singularity and its meanings) Part I | Part II Bruce Sterling. Old Genies in New Bottles. (How to prevent a Singularity from happening) Part I | Part II
GBN Annual Forum Report: The Now Economy - Learning from the Past
and the Future. Jan, 2001. Charles Stross:
To New Horizons (1940).
Singularity Sky
Iron Sunrise
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
