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Sam Fraser
06-14-2010, 03:26 AM
On a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html

Who's got that kind of money to burn? People like this guy:

Robin Tedder, a Scottish baron who lives in Australia and divides his time among managing a personal fortune, racing a yacht and running a vineyard, says he read about Singularity University in an investor newsletter and checked out the Web site.

And this guy:

Among them is Keith Kleiner, who joined Google in its early days and walked away as a wealthy man in 2005. ... Mr. Kleiner, 32, founded a Web site, SingularityHub.com (http://singularityhub.com), with a writing staff that reports on radical advances in technology. He has also given $100,000 to Singularity University. He admires Mr. Kurzweil’s vision.

Tip for the New York Times: It's "website", one word. No need to capitalize the "w". It's 2010, not 1995.

moonus111
06-14-2010, 04:03 AM
The comedy never ends.

Neanderthal Man
02-13-2011, 06:01 AM
Here's a recent Kurzweil piece I saw in Time the other day.

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-1,00.html)

sigh

Sam Fraser
02-17-2011, 08:15 AM
An interesting read, NM. A pessimist's take could be:

2044: The Year Man Becomes Extinct