The blog I
have chosen to profile is called Accelerating Future and the blog focuses on
near-future technologies and the implications that they might have upon the
world. Accelerating Future is written by
Michael Anissimov, who I found out after further research, is the Media
Director for the Singularity Institute and Co-Organizer of the Singularity
Summit, which is “an annual conference that focuses on emerging technologies
like nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence” (taken
from Anissimov’s blog bio section).
Reading the rest of his bio, it seems like Anissimov is more of a writer
about these issues than a scientist, but he seems very well versed in the
academic discussions and theories. Many
of this articles have been featured in prominent science enthusiast magazines
and he reportedly has a very large audience.
Michael does not post to his blog fairly often, but he has kept up his
blog for many years now. His top two
posts are this
post, in response to someone else’s thoughts on singularity, and this
one where he presents what he considers to be a more accurate view of
future AI singularity.
This blog
coincides beautifully with my own blog.
It’s almost as if Philip K. Dick wrote Accelerating Future instead of
Michael Anissimov in terms of the subject matter. My understanding is that Michael is a writer
and that he is writing the blog professionally for a living, but I could be
mistaken. The posts range from very detailed and long articles that explore the
complexities and nuances of various scientific discoveries and theories to very
short, humorous quips and lists. The
audience is targeted to whoever is equally enthusiastic about singularity and
the other scientific realms that Michael writes about. I feel that this blog would work very well as
the source for my writing project, but I am concerned that it may be a little
challenging to find articles that relate these scientific ideas directly to
philosophy. I think I’ll just have to do
more searching on his blog. It’s way too
easy for me to get distracted while browsing his posts because they all sound
very captivating and I end up reading those articles out of sheer interest. He is definitely a very strong writer. I’ve noticed that he always manages to
capture my interest from the first few lines of any of his blog posts and his
thoughts are organized in lists that make it easy to visually detect his
points. I searched for his blog’s
audience and rankings and it seems that Michael’s audience is really made up of
people that are just like me – male, in their twenties, and nerd junkies!
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