‘Future of’ series from Singularity University

I’ve been a big fan of Ray Kurzweil ever since reading The Age of Spiritual Machines way back when.  So I’ve followed the launch of his Singularity University with great interest.  They’ve produced the following fascinating videos called The Future Of series.  Enjoy.

The Future of Nanotech

The Future of Energy

The Future of Robotics

The Future of Medicine

The Future of Synthetic Biology

Tags: Age of Spiritual Machines, Future, predictions, Ray Kurzweil, Raymond Kurzweil, Singularity, Singularity University

Do you want to make good predictions?

Then the latest research suggests you shouldn’t think about it. Ap Dijksterhuis and his colleagues have just shown that people with expertise in football are better at predicting match outcomes when they spend time not consciously thinking about their predictions.

You can read more about the experiment here

Tags: Football, predictions, Research