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Singularity Summer 2026: 8 Live Lectures on AI and Story

The technological singularity is usually sold to you as a prediction. A date. A curve. A moment when the machines wake up, and everything changes.

I have conducted more than 300 interviews since 2009, listening to the people who tell that story. The futurists. The engineers. The believers.

Here is what I have come to believe.

The singularity is not a forecast. It is a story. And whoever gets to write that story gets to shape what it means to be human.

This July and August, I am joining machine learning expert Thomas Hamelryck at Philosophy Portal for Singularity Summer. Eight live lectures across two months. Thomas takes the first month to open up the machine. What machine learning actually is, what it is not, and where it breaks.

Then I take August for the part that the engineering never answers. The human story inside the #AI machine, and how we might write a better one.

This is not a course about #MachineLearning as destiny. It is about #technology as the How, never the Why or the What. It is about who holds the pen writing our story.

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12 Critical Technologies Reshaping the Industrial Era: A Resource/Framework for Understanding Convergence, Risk, and Resilience

Exploring 12 critical technologies reshaping the industrial era: a resource for understanding convergence, risk, and resilience.

This framework outlines 12 critical technologies, their applications, and their impact across 13 essential infrastructure sectors, along with data-driven imperatives for action. It is designed to be a living resource, regularly updated, and is primarily based on my published writings in various outlets, including Forbes, Skytop Media Group, GovCon Wire, Homeland Security Today Magazine, Security Information Watch, and my book “Inside Cyber.”

The findings are that these emerging technologies that will shape our future do not operate in isolation. Convergence acts as the catalyst.

“Aging, goal-directedness, and bioelectricity” by Michael Levin

This is ~23 minute talk overviewing our recent results and the way we think about aging and longevity. It was for a conference with quite short speaking slots so I had to talk fast… Longer talk coming with more data but this outlines some ideas and overviews our published recent work on aging.

Designing a Generational Ship (Proxima Centauri b)

To build a Proxima Centauri b generational ship; designed to protect the life aboard during the 100 year journey from Earth; designed to build the first structures of the settlement on the surface of the new planet.

✧ Find me on Substack where I write sci-fi story essays: J.Barry / Between Worlds.
https://jbarrybetweenworlds.substack… The fourth volume of ‘The Encyclopedia of the Future’ is now available on my Patreon. / shop ✧ The Garden Telescope (and Other Short Stories) Ebook is also available to Patreon members, or as a single purchase download Visit my Patreon here: / venturecity Created by: J. Barry — Book recommendations on artificial intelligence, future technology and innovations, and sci-fi stories (affiliate links): • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies https://amzn.to/3j28WkP • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://amzn.to/3790bU1 • The Expanse: https://amzn.to/3Q0mG61 • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://amzn.to/3kNFSyW — Other videos to watch: 1. The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri b • The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri B… 2. The First 10,000 Days on Proxima Centauri b • The First 10,000 Days on Proxima Centauri… 3. TIMELAPSE of Future Space Stations • TIMELAPSE of Future Space Stations.
✧ The fourth volume of ‘The Encyclopedia of the Future’ is now available on my Patreon.
/ shop.
✧ The Garden Telescope (and Other Short Stories) Ebook is also available to Patreon members, or as a single purchase download.

Visit my Patreon here: / venturecity.

Created by: J. Barry.

Book recommendations on artificial intelligence, future technology and innovations, and sci-fi stories (affiliate links):
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies https://amzn.to/3j28WkP
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://amzn.to/3790bU1
• The Expanse: https://amzn.to/3Q0mG61
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://amzn.to/3kNFSyW

Other videos to watch:

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00:00 — Why Superconductors?
10:10 — The Breakthrough.

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Artificial ‘leaf’ powers wireless biomedical device

Plants convert light into energy efficiently through photosynthesis—an ability that scientists and engineers still struggle to match with electronic devices. Recently, researchers have looked beyond traditional semiconductor materials to create devices using a promising class of materials called nanoplasmonics. These tiny metal structures can absorb and concentrate optical energy and generate energetic charge carriers.

In a new study, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Department of Chemistry developed a nanoplasmonic “leaf,” a wireless bioelectronic device they used to stimulate nerves and pace heartbeats in an animal model.

The team also showed that their material could be used as a computer-like sensing platform, where users can interact with the screen using invisible light—a potentially secure way to transmit information.

Some patient groups are far more vulnerable to near-perfect privacy attacks from medical AI

From detecting pneumonia on a chest X-ray to assessing whether a dark spot on the skin is benign or malignant, medical AI systems are playing an increasingly important role in clinical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the models used to train these AI systems are often victims of cyberattacks, specifically membership inference attacks (MIAs), which can lead to people’s personal information being stolen or revealed.

In a recent study, researchers conducted a first-ever patient-level privacy audit to see how easily individual patients could be identified from the underlying data used to train medical AI models.

At first glance, an AI model may appear to protect everyone’s privacy equally well, but a closer look reveals a different story. Researchers found that attackers can identify certain individual patients with near-perfect accuracy, exposing a hidden unfairness in privacy.

Detect Dangerous Gases in Seconds With New Technology

A groundbreaking method known as coherently controlled quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy has been developed to detect and identify gases at very low concentrations rapidly.

This new technique, with promising applications in environmental monitoring, early cancer detection, and chemical process safety, allows for comprehensive gas analysis in mere seconds, a process that traditionally took much longer.

Enhanced sensitivity in trace gas detection.

ROS-producing enzymes guide plant cell division and tissue patterning, gene-editing study shows

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced naturally during cellular metabolism often cause oxidative damage to cells. However, these molecules also play an important role in normal cellular signaling. While ROS are established as essential signaling molecules in various organisms, their precise role in basic plant development and morphogenesis remains unclear.

A family of enzymes known as NADPH oxidases (NOXs) generates ROS that act as physiologically important signaling molecules. In plants, the NOX enzymes are known as respiratory burst oxidase homologs (RBOHs), which are implicated in diverse physiological processes. However, their contribution to plant development, including cell proliferation and ordered morphogenesis, has remained insufficiently understood.

To address this gap, a team of researchers led by Professor Kazuyuki Kuchitsu from the Department of Applied Biological Science at Tokyo University of Science (TUS) in Japan conducted a study.

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