Logarithmic Plot Porn (aka Singularity University Pitch)

by phil on Thursday Feb 5, 2009 6:04 PM
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So guess what, there is going to be a Singularity University now. It's interesting to see that the concept of the Singularity is starting to go mainstream. Ray Kurzweil really spearheaded the movement with his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines. I read that book in college and became instantly mesmerized by the concept.

Recently, Kurzweil gave a PowerPoint presentation at TED pitching the University and also the idea of the Singularity. I decided to extract the slides from the PowerPoint that I term, "logarithmic plot porn." These are graphs that really nail home the point that we may be approaching an End of Days scenario very soon. Here they are, all in one place:

Comments

Philip Dhingra said on February 9, 2009 5:05 PM:

I thought this worked?!