Cross-check: Singularity Schtick: Hi-tech moguls and The New York Times may buy it, but you shouldn’t
June 23, 2010
The New York Times Sunday business section recently ran an enormous puff piece on Ray Kurzweil and the “Singularity” cult (my term, not the Times’s). Kurzweil is a successful inventor–entrepreneur best known lately for his sci-tech prophecies. He claims that advances in AI, nanotech, biotech, computer science and neuroscience are bearing us toward a radical transformation of our minds and bodies called the Singularity—aka “rapture of the geeks”. (Scientific American)
