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

I’d really like to get tickets to the premiere of this movie at the Tribeca film festival in NYC on April 28:

The new issue of h+ magazine has an interesting article on the role that AI played in the current global financial crisis.

…My feeling as an AI expert is that these sorts of problems we’ve seen recently are merely hiccups on the path to super-efficient financial markets based on advanced AI.

I’ve said many times before that the days of the unaided human trader are numbered. It is just going to get more and more difficult for you. Unless you start building your own computer programs that can do the trading for you. Or if you can somehow use technology to trade at the same level as these computers.

h+ is pretty cool - other articles include “Nanobots in the Bloodstream,” “Is Anti-Aging Medicine Coming to the Mainstream?” “Things to do with your body while you wait for immortality,” etc…

Thanks to pythagoruz for the video link. I have been taking micronized resveratrol through the buccal mucosa on a daily basis for the last few months and feel great.

My iPhone is one of the coolest things I have ever bought. It is a really amazing device. It holds so much power. For example, a month ago I downloaded Wikipedia on the iPhone. The whole thing. I now have the sum of all human knowledge literally at my fingertips - even without an internet connection. Isn’t it amazing?
Only 15 years ago you had to travel to a library and then look up books via the card catalog. Once you had a book, you had to search it for the information you were looking for. Now we can find much more information almost instantly.
I just downloaded Google’s voice search application:

And this is what we can do today. Can you imagine the future? I can’t wait for the future.