Kurzweil’s most ambitious plan for life after the Singularity, however, is also his most personal: Using technology, he plans to bring his dead father back to life. Kurzweil reveals this to me near the end of our conversation. It’s a bright, clear afternoon, and we can see the river that runs behind the trees outside his wide office windows. The portrait of his father looks down over him. In a soft voice, he explains how the resurrection will work. “We can find some of his DNA around his grave site - that’s a lot of information right there,” he says. “The AI will send down some nanobots and get some bone or teeth and extract some DNA and put it all together. Then they’Il get some information from my brain and anyone else who still remembers him.”
When I ask how exactly they’Il extract the knowledge from his brain, Kurzweil bristles, as if the answer should be obvious: “Just send nanobots into mybrain and reconstruct my recollections and memories.” The machines will capture everything: the piggyback ride to a grocery store, the bedtime reading of Tom Swift, the moment he and his father rejoiced when the letter of acceptance from MIT arrived. To provide the nanobots with even more information, Kurzweil is safeguarding the boxes of his dad’s mementos, so the artificial intelligence has as much data as possibie from which to reconstruct him. Father 2.0 could take many forms, he says, from a virtual reality avatar to a fully functioning robot.
I want to fly around on algae powered cars. The specs:
- In “fly mode” the Parajet Skycar will have:
- A take-off speed of 60 kmph
- A top speed of 110 kmph
- A range of 300 km.
- A cruising altitude of 2000 – 3000 ft
- A maximum altitude of 15,000 ft.
Conversion from “road mode” to “fly mode” and visa-versa will take just three minutes.
USA CTO
“Obama will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our networks and will lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief information officers of each of the federal agencies, to ensure that they use best-in-class technologies and share best practices.”
from the Technology Agenda on change.gov
via cameron.io
