In the future, we might be putting far fewer people in jail and far more under constant surveillance. But will virtual prisons work?

Science fiction writers who really research AI can come away with some great insights.

Jaron Lanier went from VR pioneer to Luddite afraid of transhumanists' supposed agenda of mass dehumanization.

While utopians dream of tomorrow's world, they often forget that we can't take anything for granted when it comes to humanity's future.

Are public transhumanists pulling away from Kurzweil, citing him as a distraction from a much more sober and realistic community?

A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.

Didn't get enough Singularity debates on the air last time? George Dvorsky and I are back...

The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.

The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...

It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.

Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.

Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?

Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.

Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?