The Edge of Biocomputation

Scientific pioneers Ray Kurzweil, J. Craig Venter and Rodney Brooks discuss the future of biocomputation at the Edge Reality Club.

"We are entering a new era. Some of us call it the Singularity. It's a merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence which is going to create something bigger than itself. It's the cutting edge of evolution on our planet. One can make a strong case that it's actually the cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence in general, because there's no indication that it has occurred anywhere else. To me that is what human civilization is all about. It is part of our destiny, and part of the destiny of evolution, to continue to progress ever faster and to grow the power of intelligence exponentially."
-- Ray Kurzweil