Singularity Weblog

In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt assembled what was then the most credentialed group of forecasters in the world. He called it the Brain Trust. He asked them to map out the next 25 years for the United States, through 1958. They missed transistors. They missed atomic energy. They missed antibiotics. They missed faster-than-sound travel. They missed […]

The Expansion of Technological Power Human civilization is entering a period in which the scale of technological capability is increasing faster than the frameworks used to guide it. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, global data systems, and emerging neurotechnologies are expanding the range of actions available to individuals, institutions, and governments. This shift represents not merely an […]