“The change is so small that every single day you don’t perceive it, but when you see progress … across 10 years, that is ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will ...

The Economic Singularity is a term I coined a decade ago to denote the moment when there are no longer any jobs for the vast majority of humans. In mathematics, the word “singularity” means a point ...

Ray Kurzweil has left a mark on our lives. The 76-year-old computer scientist, author, inventor and futurist is responsible for advances in technologies we take for granted: optical character ...

The famed futurist remains inhumanly optimistic about the world and his own fate—and thinks the singularity is minutes away. Kurzweil had suggested we meet at the public library in Newton, ...

*It's been twenty years. Two long decades. Is any of this speculative stuff actually occurring in our real lives today? Read what Vinge wrote, it's all in the record, and here it is for you below, ...

When Fortnite reached stratospheric popularity early last year, there were undoubtedly an awful lot of VCs on the sidelines looking enviously at the massive platform and wondering what opportunities ...

Almost everyone has heard the story of the Big Bang. But if you ask anyone, from a layperson to a cosmologist, to finish the following sentence, "In the beginning, there was..." you'll get a slew of ...