EVENT COUNTDOWN

World Technology Summit and Awards - Press Center

Pamela Tucker
The World Technology Network
pamget@wtn.net
Phone: 917-414-2004

Sarah Reed
Public Relations Manager
Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
SReed@Kurzweiltech.com
Phone: 781-263-0000

Celia Black
Media Relations, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Celia@Kurzweiltech.com
Phone: 360-320-8087

---

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...

Featuring:

• Ray Kurzweil
• Alan Dershowitz
• Tony Robbins
• Pauley Perrette
• Bill Joy
• Mitch Kapor
• Vinod Khosla
• Bill McKibben
• Marvin Minsky
• Martine Rothblatt
• Alvin Toffler
• Sherry Turkle
• Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Cynthia Breazeal
• Richard Clarke
• David Dalrymple
• Aubrey De Grey
• K. Eric Drexler
• Robert A. Freitas Jr.
• James Gashel
• Neil Gershenfeld
• J. Storrs Hall