OT: This Singularity is Near @ Woodstock Film Festival
John Esak
john at valar.com
Mon Sep 13 19:07:27 PDT 2010
Normally, I would have just forwarded this to Mark, although I think he may
be on this recipients list anyway. However, it is so techie... that I'm
guessing most of you would be interested, too. I'm waiting for the next Tron
movie, but in the meantime, I bet this one from Ray Kruzweil will be pretty
interesting. He is the guy who pretty much single handedly developed usable
optical readers so that blind people could avail themselves of real books...
way back in the 70's. The Kurzweil Reader was the first one I ever used and
there was nothing else even close at the time. Then, of course, he also
developed the music synthesizer up into plateaus they would have never
reached without him. To this day, it is hard or impossible to find a better
system. Anyway, his futuristic views on science and health (things to eat,
even) all bare scrutiny and investigation. You may not agree with him on
everything he says (I don't) but I like to stay abreast of what he is
putting out there.
So, I've posted this blurb. Hopefully, you haven't even gotten this far if
you don't want to be reading about non-filePro stuff...
John Esak
P.S. - I was going to attend one of his 9 day Singularity University
seminars for exectives... until I got to the price.... $29,000. :-) Okay,
so I'll be ignorant of this future view... at least I know somebody has one!
:-)
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The Singularity is Near, A True Story About the Future Documentary Film by
Inventor, Futurist Ray Kurzweil East Coast Premiere at the Woodstock Film
Festival on September 30th
Special Woodstock Film Festival panel discussion: The Singularity is Near
features Ray Kurzweil and Martine Rothblatt.
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September 13, 2010 (BOSTON) -- "The
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Anthony Waller, Ray Kurzweil, Ehren Koepf and Toshi Hoo, with Executive
Producer Martine Rothblatt (Terasem Motion InfoCulture), makes its East
Coast premiere on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at the 11th annual Woodstock
Film Festival. A special panel discussion featuring Ray Kurzweil and Martine
Rothblatt will follow the premiere screening. The film is among 25 feature
documentary films being screened at the 5 day festival.
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Starring Pauley Perrette
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The feature-length documentary film presents the daring arguments from
Kurzweil's New York Times bestselling book, "The Singularity is Near." He
predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change,
humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become
trillions of times more powerful and increasingly merged with computers.
This will be the dawning of a new civilization, enabling us to transcend our
biological limitations. In Kurzweil's post-biological world, boundaries blur
between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are
reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death. He
maintains a radically optimistic view of the future course of human
development while acknowledging profound new dangers.
"Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future," according to
Bill Gates. "Kurzweil envisions a future in which information technologies
have advanced so far and fast that they enable humanity to transcend its
biological limitations --transforming our lives in ways we can't yet
imagine."
Featuring Tony Robbins & Alan Dershowitz
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implications of these profound changes and the potential threats they pose
to human civilization in dialogues with big thinkers, including former White
House counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke; technologists Bill Joy,
Mitch Kapor, Marvin Minsky, Eric Drexler, Sherry Turkle and Cynthia
Breazeal; Future Shock author Alvin Toffler; civil liberties lawyer Alan
Dershowitz; venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and environmentalist Bill
McKibben. Kurzweil illustrates the future with a narrative story about an
"AI" seeking her human rights, featuring popular NCIS actress Pauley
Perrette and personal development guru Tony Robbins. The movie, The
Singularity Is Near offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic
culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely
inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.
For more information about the film visit: Singularity.com/themovie
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WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE SCREENING
The Singularity is Near will premiere Thursday, September 30, 1:00 p.m. at
the Bearsville Theatre, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. A special panel
discussion featuring Ray Kurzweil and Martine Rothblatt will follow the
screening at 3:00 p.m. in the Utopia Studio, 293 Tinker Street, Woodstock,
NY. A second screening for the film will be held on Sunday, October 3, 8:00
p.m. at the Upstate Films Rhinebeck, 6415 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY.
Individual tickets to screenings and panels are available online now at
woodstockfilmfestival.com
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ABOUT THE WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
The Woodstock Film Festival is a not-for-profit, 501C(3) organization whose
mission is to present an annual program and year-round schedule of film,
music and art-related activities that promotes artists, culture, inspired
learning, and diversity. The 11th annual Woodstock Film Festival will take
place September 29-October 3, 2010. The festival includes more than 150
films, panels, concerts and special events in Woodstock and the neighboring
towns of Kingston, Rhinebeck and Rosendale. WFF premieres exceptional films;
hosts emerging and established filmmakers; presents A-list concerts, parties
and panels, and creates stimulating, innovative year-round programming For
more information visit woodstockfilmfestival.com
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ABOUT RAY KURZWEIL
Inventor Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading futurists, with a
20-year track record of accurate predictions. Called the "restless genius"
by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes
magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc.
magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison."
Inventor of the first CCD flat bed scanner and many other firsts, Kurzweil
is an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and recipient of the
National Medal of Technology, the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world's largest
for innovation), and 19 honorary doctorates and awards from three U.S.
presidents.
ABOUT RAY KURZWEIL
Inventor Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading futurists, with a
20-year track record of accurate predictions. Called the "restless genius"
by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes
magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc.
magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison."
Inventor of the first CCD flat bed scanner and many other firsts, Kurzweil
is an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and recipient of the
National Medal of Technology, the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world's largest
for innovation), and 19 honorary doctorates and awards from three U.S.
presidents.
ABOUT MARTINE ROTHBLATT & TERASEM MOTION INFOCULTURE
Martine Rothblatt, J.D. Ph.D. started the satellite vehicle tracking and
satellite radio industries and is the Chairman of United Therapeutics, a
biotechnology company headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr.
Rothblatt founded Terasem Motion InfoCulture with a mission to create
exciting media products on the themes of diversity, unity and joyful
techno-immortality. This includes films, DVDs, webcasts, and CDs, among
other formats. For more information: teraseminfoculture.com
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CONTACT
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Sarah Reed,
Public Relations Manager,
781-263-0000
SReed at Kurzweiltech.com
Celia Black,
Media Relations,
360-320-8087
Celia at Kurzweiltech.com
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