The Singularity is Near Premieres at Breckenridge Festival of Film
Sneak Preview of "THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR"
- Friday, April 16th
Inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil will be at the screening of this much-awaited film based on his New York Times best-selling book of the same title. Kurzweil is one of the greatest scientific minds of the last 50 years - he has been integral to the development of optical scanning technology, music synthesizers, and artificial intelligence. The screening will be followed by a thought-provoking panel discussion with other leading thinkers who have participated in the film.
The Singularity is Near - Press Section
Ray Kurzweil On 'The Singularity' Future
By Michael Greene | InformationWeek | July 3, 2010 06:00 AM
Tech professionals have become somewhat inured to descriptions of the exponential rise in computing power in what is commonly described as Moore's law. But when inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil strings together dozens of examples on logarithmic graphs to support his claims of an imminent transformational moment in history, it's an intellectual jolt.. Read the full review...
The World Technology Network (WTN) in association with TIME magazine presents the New York Premiere of Ray Kurzweil’s documentary film “The Singularity is Near” June 24
businesswire.com - Date Published: June 7, 2010
There were many moments of high irony before we Sonoma Film Festival attendees got to preview a somewhat unfinished version of The Singularity is Near: The Movie -- based on the Ray Kurzweil book of the same name. The lights went down, the anticipation rose and we waited in the dark... and waited... with various people shouting mildly snarky comments. Mine was: "John Cage's version of the Singularity." A computer crash was announced. While we worried about crashing cities full of uploaded minds after the singularity, Ray Kurzweil got back on stage (he had earlier introduced the film) and good-naturedly reassured us that the technology was getting better. A couple of minutes later, the movie started. Read the full review...
The Singularity is Near Premieres at Breckenridge Festival of Film
businesswiree.com - Date Published: June 2, 2010
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future (singularity.com/themovie),” by filmmakers Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf and Toshi Hoo, with Executive Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture), makes its world premiere on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at the 30th Annual Breckenridge Film Festival. The film is among 51 films screening at the four day festival and will compete in the documentary film category. Read the press release...
The Singularity Is Near: The Movie -- Sneak Preview. It's Awesome!
hplusmagazine.com - Written By: R.U. Sirius - Date Published: April 19, 2010
There were many moments of high irony before we Sonoma Film Festival attendees got to preview a somewhat unfinished version of The Singularity is Near: The Movie -- based on the Ray Kurzweil book of the same name. The lights went down, the anticipation rose and we waited in the dark... and waited... with various people shouting mildly snarky comments. Mine was: "John Cage's version of the Singularity." A computer crash was announced. While we worried about crashing cities full of uploaded minds after the singularity, Ray Kurzweil got back on stage (he had earlier introduced the film) and good-naturedly reassured us that the technology was getting better. A couple of minutes later, the movie started. Read the full review...
Singularity Is Near' Movie Will Premier at Sonoma Film Festival April 16th
singularityhub.com - April 5th, 2010 by Aaron Saenz
Those looking to hear about the future of technology straight from the horse’s mouth should head to Sonoma next weekend. Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading voices in the discussion about accelerating technology will finally debut his movie The Singularity Is Near, based on his book of the same title. The Sonoma Film Festival will premier the documentary on Friday April 16th, along with a special panel afterwards which will feature Kurzweil himself. Day passes are still on sale for around $60. The Singularity Is Near movie promises to explore the possibilities of the next few decades, including Kurzweil’s famous predictions that man and machine will become increasingly interconnected and that artificial intelligence will arise sooner than we think. Read more...
Sonoma Film Festival announces 2010 lineup
3hmm.com/thesun/ - March 12, 2010
...Documentaries have become one of the festival’s specialties, having previously shown the groundbreaking Food Inc. and this year’s Academy Award winner, The Cove. This year the buzz is about “The Singularity Is Near,” by Raymond Kurzweil, called one of the most creative scientific minds of the past 50 years. The film, in its first-ever public showing, examines the near future, in which artificial intelligence transcends biology and genetics to create an entirely new world... Read more...