Are you interested/excited/worried about the 'Singularity' as authors like Ray Kurzweil coined the time of ever increasing speed of technological innovation? I'd like to find others interested in this subject to exchange thoughts, ideas, book tips, laughter and generally good company.

Ever combined the Web, Second Life, World of Warcraft, Google Earth, Nintendo, Xbox Kinect, Facebook, Moore's Law and the unfolding human experience into a single thought (which, perhaps, you then Twittered over your iPhone)? Working on an art or web or game or virtual world project? Have an avatar? Are an avatar? Think video games can save the world or that the world is already a video game? (Or think that's the worst thing you've ever heard?) Does Snow Crash ring any bells even if you're way t …

… Sometimes we also invite guest speakers – past guests include Columbia University bioethicist and author Jacob Appel; the co-founder of Givewell, Holden Karnofsky; the president of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Michael Vassar; and the A.I. researcher and rationality blogger Eliezer Yudkowsky. To give you an idea of what our meetings tend to be about, here are a few representative examples: Five Minute Lectures |  Everyone was invited to give an informal five-minute talk …