Singularity In Focus

The purpose of Life in the Singularity is to explore the exploding capabilities around us — artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing leading the way bolstered by hundreds of exciting new technologies emerging and evolving at rising rates.

Now our brilliant audience includes engineers and executives, incredible technologists, Fortune 500 board members and thousands of people who want to use technology to maximize the impact of their lives.

I typically post 5 to 7 futurist + techno optimistic articles every month.

Over the last 2-months I’ve only managed to post 4 pieces. Apologies for the drop-off but I have a great excuse:

I got married last month to my best friend of 7 years. We travelled Italy (read: ate our way across the Amalfi Coast) and for the first time I experienced a much slower pace. A more simple life.

What a sharp contrast to the “go, go, go!” voice of my dad in my head, urging me to put in another set of reps, make another pass at the python script I’m working on — to be intense, consistent and ultimately disciplined.

I think a great life comes from having both those voices in your head. The one telling you to kick ass while conquering life and the one telling you life is meant to be lived.

Now that I’m back from Italy and catching up with the latest news in technology… I find myself just as interested in conquering life but I have a new sense of awareness about the why behind my fascination with technology.

I want to use the rising tide of technology to improve the quality of life for everyone.

Technology will help us in these key ways:

1. Lower energy cost to zero

2. Provide super intelligent (ASI) cognitive companions

3. Embody this rising intelligence with robots that will get more useful and more adaptive and more powerful over time

4. Utilize quantum computing to make breakthroughs not possible or resource efficient with Von Neumann computing

5. Then use cheap energy, powerful conventional computers and new quantum computers to solve the next problems:

   1. Optimize our ecology, biological editing, etc..

   2. Space exploration

   3. Resource extraction and yield optimization

Energy is the key to everything so ANYTHING touching our ability to generate, store or transmit energy is top dog priority.

Next is AI. It accelerates everything. We need to continue investing in compute infrastructure like interconnect, and using AI and other tools to help us make breakthroughs in materials science, circuit design, information theory and everything else that goes into making AI.

Next priority is quantum. It has the potential to revolutionize computing power, leading to breakthroughs in metamaterials, drug discovery, artificial intelligence, and optimization problems that are currently intractable.

"The search space is too big" is the answer to most of the really interesting problems today with classical computing... we are changing that with quantum computing.

Technologies like CRISPR are opening up unprecedented possibilities in curing genetic diseases, creating new organisms, and even altering the course of human evolution.... so we can't minimize that branch of technology either.

These sorts of interventions make some folks uneasy. We must push forward - this is the most direct vector we have ever created to channel the rising energy of technology into biological systems. It is definitely a paradigm shift for humanity, one that we largely haven't recognized yet.

I growing this platform and using it to spread awareness and adoption of powerful technologies. I am very interested in synthesizing new capabilities from bringing these disparate technologies together in unique ways.

Over the next few weeks I'm going to write a series of posts focusing in on each of these technologies so we can summarize the current state of the art and what the path forward looks like.

After we have the AI article, and the quantum article, and the biotechnology article, and the rest… then we'll start mapping out how these technologies overlap and what the influence of each development trajectory will be on the rest.

Very excited to push out to the cutting edge with you. Seeing all the different ways that we can use these technologies to improve humanity is going to be very rewarding.

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