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From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Hogwarts for Singularitarians?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:29:18 -0800

This does have a cryonics connection:
 


http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/03/234565/google-and-nasa-back-singularity-university.htm
 
Google and Nasa back Singularity University

Author: Ian Grant Posted: 09:10 03 Feb 2009 
 

Google and Nasa are to back a new school led by controversial futurist Ray 
Kurzweil that will explore a time when computers are more intelligent than 
people.
 

The so-called Singularity University will offer courses on biotechnology, 
nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. It will be sited at Nasa's Ames 
Research Centre in Silicon Valley, close to Google's headquarters.
 

Kurzweil is best-known for developing the Reading Machine, which translates type
into words for the blind, and two essential components, the flat bed scanner 
and optical character recognition. An AI pioneer, Kurzweil believes machine 
intelligence will outstrip human thinking and usher in an unprecedented era of 
human leisure.
 

The school is named after a book Kurzweil wrote that predicts that machines will
be cleverer than people within 50 years.
 
[Mark resumes]
 
 
So what does the Singularity University's website say?
 
From the "Academics" page:
 
 
http://singularityu.org/academics/tracks/#nanotechnology
 
4. Nanotechnology:

This track will cover the future of nanotechnology, including (1) Future 
molecular manufacturing methods using nanoscale fabrication, DNA nanotechnology 
and self-assembly, scanning probe microscopy, atomic probe microscopy, 
positional assembly, atomically precise manufacturing (APM), molecular 
nanotechnology (MNT), nanoscale machine systems, nanofactories, and 
self-replicating systems; (2) Molecular simulations and computational 
experiments to create molecular computers and carbon nanotube electronics; (3) 
Medical nanorobotics, including nanomedicine, life extension and cryonics; (4) 
Energy production and storage; and (5) Green manufacturing and environmental 
mitigation.
 
 

Mark Plus, cryonics cult official (based on supposedly good authority about 
"cults").
 
 
 
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