Sunday night Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discussed The Singularity 101, with special guest futurist Tyler Emerson.

Following up on last week's discussion about what is possible and what it is reasonable to expect will happen in the future, guys outlined the basics of what we mean when we use the term "singularity," and the role that organizations such as the Singularity Institute and events such as the Singularity Summit play not only in helping us to understand the singularity, but in helping to bring it about.

Our Guest:

Tyler Emerson is founding executive director of the Singularity Institute, a nonprofit for the long term study of advanced artificial intelligence systems. He is curator of the Singularity Summit, an annual conference for gathering the smartest people around to explore the biggest ideas of our time, cofounded in 2006 with inventor Ray Kurzweil and investor Peter Thiel. He is a cofounder and managing trustee of Innerspace Foundation, created to fund research that creates tomorrow's interfaces for accelerating learning and memory. He is a cofounder and director of Humanity+, which is dedicated to fostering emerging innovation that can radically benefit the human condition. He has five years experience in long term philanthropy, concentrating on communications, fundraising, events, strategy, and community organizing.