Posts Tagged ‘ Technological Singularity ’

Perspectives on Invisible Learning

5/12/2011
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By popular demand, here are the slides from my Invisible Learning “stump lecture” from the past month…


Next Horizon Forum roundtable: Education and the Technological Singularity

1/13/2010

An invitation to the next Horizon Forum meeting at the University of Minnesota: Education and the Technological Singularity January 27, 2010 11:30am – 1:30pm 250 Wulling Hall (U of M East Bank) At the next Horizon Forum, you are invited to join the discussion, moderated by Arthur Harkins and John Moravec, with special guests, as [...]


The Education Futures timeline of education

12/21/2009

Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of education from 1657-2045. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into modern education, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, [...]


Timeline

12/19/2009

The Education Futures timeline of education 1657 – 2045 By John Moravec (Updated May 30, 2010) This timeline of the history of modern education provides not only a glimpse into the past and present, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, but [...]


Kurzweil’s Transcendent Man

10/15/2009

We haven’t had an opportunity to screen Ray Kurzweil‘s the film, Transcendent Man, yet, but The Futurist magazine published a preview: Scene: A movie theater on the west side of Manhattan during the Tribeca Film Festival. The audience teems with hip New York film students eager to see the world premiere of a new documentary. [...]


The Singularity is nearer than we might think

3/18/2009

The future is getting harder to imagine –so much that the SciFi channel is giving up on science fiction and rebranding the channel. Rather than pushing for bold futures, network executives at NBC Universal have decided to retreat into the make-believe worlds fantasy, the supernatural and pro wrestling. From their media release: By changing the [...]


On the approaching Singularity

2/21/2009

The Star Tribune’s Karen Youso interviewed me for what I thought would be a short sidebar article on accelerating change, but it wound up taking the full front page of the Variety section in today’s paper. I’m absolutely delighted to see mainstream media discuss the Technological Singularity! … especially since the article contains questions for [...]


Singularity University

2/10/2009

This past week… A shockwave passed through the singularity community today with the public launch of Singularity University at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.  Singularity University aims to assemble a world class community of thought leaders, academics, and entreprenuers across the many fields of exponentially advancing technologies (nanotechnology, genetics, medicine, artificial intelligence, etc.) [...]


Slides from this morning’s MACTA presentation

2/12/2008

From this morning’s MACTA keynote address: Co-constructing Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Career and Technical Education is poised at the inflection point of a technological and social change process identified as the “J” Curve. Just like the letter J, the “J” Curve describes a sharp upward turn in the exponentially accelerating rate [...]


Six scenarios for the Technological Singularity

9/10/2007

Two articles related to the Singularity Summit have appeared on preparing for the Technological Singularity: First, Jamais Cascio writes on a Metaverse Roadmap Overview: In this work, along with my colleagues John Smart and Jerry Paffendorf, I sketch out four scenarios of how a combination of forces driving the development of immersive, richly connected information [...]


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Are writers nearing the limits of human imagination?

In an interview with Silicon.com, William Gibson declares that he’s given up on envisioning futures: We hit a point somewhere in the mid-18th century where we started doing what we think of technology today and it started changing things for us, changing society. Since World War II it’s going literally exponential and what we are [...]


Designing education for sustainable innovation

Presented at the JTET conference this morning: Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. (USA) John Moravec, Ph.D. (USA) University of Minnesota Abstract This presentation is concerned with complex subjects, but presents them in ways that audiences can understand and professionally contemplate. The core concept of the paper is “sustainable innovation,” which presumes the necessity for continuous innovation [...]


Technology Evangelist: Kurzweil at Killer App Expo

The folks at the Technology Evangelist blog did a remarkable job in recording Ray Kurzweil‘s talk at the Killer App Expo and feeding video to the net. Benjamin J. Higginbotham writes: Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App [...]


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