| The Singularity Is Near: a True Story About the Future movie will be available to the public this Summer. The movie will be available for downloading and via DVD. |
While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents 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.
The Singularity is Near, A True Story about the Future, is based on Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near, the New York Times bestseller, intertwines a fast-paced A-line documentary with a B-line narrative story.
The A-line documentary features Ray Kurzweil interacting with a panoply of thinkers on the impact of exponentially expanding technologies on the nature of human life in the next half century. These ideas are illustrated with cutting-edge graphics and special effects.
The intertwined B-line is a Pinocchio story of Ramona (played by Pauley Perrette), a superhero avatar created by Ray. As the adventure unfolds, Ramona becomes more and more independent, hires Alan Dershowitz (who plays himself) to press for her legal rights, and is coached by Tony Robbins (who also plays himself) to discover the true meaning of what it means it be human.
The film also features:
- Bill Joy
- Mitch Kapor
- Vinod Khosla
- Bill McKibben
- Marvin Minsky
- Marthine Rothblatt
- Alvin Toffler
- Sherry Turkle
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Cynthea Breazeal
- Richard Clarke
- David Dalrymple
- Aubrey de Grey
- K. Eric Drexler
- Robert A. Freitas Jr.
- James Gashel
- Nei Gershenfeld
- and
- J. Storrs Hall
SOURCE singularity.com/themovie
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