Licking Kurzweil's Balls

Many of you have heard me yammer on about Ray Kurzweil and his new book The Singularity Is Near. I'm coming late to the game on this AI shit, I realize. Some of you were raised on Arthur C. Clarke and have had contemplated the coming changes for awhile. What can I say? Now I'm very interested and have all the symptoms of a new convert. Ray's doing lots of interviews, some available as podcasts. I thought I'd make it easy for those of you interested.

1hr podcast: http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1851
40 min stream: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Dec/hour2_122305.html
38 min podcast: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail755.html

They are all different, but not by a great amount. You might learn about some specific advances (like the lab rats cured of diabetes through nanobots controlling insulin levels) but the idea is the same.

Loads o' papers and such at http://www.kurzweilai.net/