We wrap the 2008-09 season of Science on Screen with a special program, An Evening with Ray Kurzweil. The celebrated futurist, inventor and entrepreneur will give a multi-media presentation based on his best-selling book The Singularity is Near and show a trailer of the upcoming film of the same name. Audience members will also be treated to a sneak peak of director Barry Ptolemy’s Transcendent Man, a documentary charting Kurzweil’s journey to bring the ideas from The Singularity is Near to a world audience. A question-and-answer session with Kurzweil will follow the program.
According to Kurzweil, the onset of the 21st century ushers in an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, Kurzweil will present an inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are a billion times more intelligent...all within the next three to four decades.
No comments:
Post a Comment