Archive for the 'futures' Category

The Singularity is Near

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Ray Kurzweil at the 2009 Singularity Summit

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Toyota’s thought-controlled wheelchair – thought-controlled trading coming soon

Monday, September 7th, 2009

I think wearing these caps for trading will help us compete against the computers:

The Singularity – Will we survive our technology?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

I’m looking forward to seeing this:

Asimo is getting smarter

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The Most Important Chart in the World

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Steve Jurvetson calls this “the most important chart in the technology business” – but I’d say it is the most important chart in any business:

If you look at stock charts all day and you know the predictive power of trends within these charts, then the possibility of the Singularity happening in the near future makes sense.

What Moore observed in the belly of the early IC industry was a derivative metric, a refracted signal, from the bigger trend, the trend that begs various philosophical questions and predicts mind-bending futures.

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Clarium Capital buys 6,786,700 shares of OIH (Oil Services HOLDRs)

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Fellow Singularitarian, Libertarian, and chess master Peter Thiel is betting big on infaltion by buying millions and millions of shares of OIH.

IBM’s Watson to try to win Jeopardy

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

The Nano Song

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

The Coming Second Industrial Revolution

Monday, April 20th, 2009