Ray Kurzweil Transcendent Man Premiere!

This week I was fortunate enough to get to travel up to LA to see the premiere of the movie 'Transcendent Man' which was a documentary about the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil. The premiere consisted of Kurzweil introducing his ideas and the film, and then of course, next was the screening. The movie offered a really cool insight into actually seeing the human side of Kurzweil (hah), and see a thorough documentary about his ideas, the implications (be them positive, or negative), the opinions of many top scientists who both agree and disagree with Kurzweil, and the innovations actually being made in the field of technology. And, as if the movie itself wasn't great enough on it's own, I actually got meet and speak with Kurzweil after the premiere! It was such an incredible experience, I can't believe I got the opportunity.

On a related note, as I become more and more of a Singulartarian (someone who embraces the implications of The Singularity), I've been informing more and more people of it. Actually as I'm writing this I'm having a lively debate with five friends of mine, answering questions, and watching speeches by Kurzweil, to help inform them about The Singularity. It's always a blast informing (and trying to convince) someone new about the profound implications about the rapid exponential growth of technology, and the profound implications of The Singularity as it first, offends them, then terrifies them, as they try to resist it's concepts, and eventually start to embrace the it's logic, then begin to fearfully explore it's implications and become excited.