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Frankenstein the Musical

Ostensibly, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is about a mad scientist and his monstrous creation. Ostensibly, it is a warning about the dangers of unrestrained science and technology. Ostensibly, it's about Frankenstein. Ostensibly, it is about his creature. Perhaps, more than any of these, it is about Captain

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Editor's Note This week’s stories span extraordinary ranges of scale and consequence—from organic chemistry forming among distant stars and newly revealed geological complexity beneath the surface of Venus, to self-improving artificial intelligence, autonomous digital agents, and courtrooms wrestling with the responsibilities of global technology platforms. Along

The Way of Tech

Dear fellow sojourners, Our latest episode of The Way of Tech has been completed. Episode #7, "Staying Coherent in a Noisy World," considers how the principle of coherence, crucial to the field of quantum computing, also serves to remind us of the value of being able to view

Singularity Circle Followup

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our Feb. 7 (2026) Singularity Circle. This email includes a link to the video we watched together, as well as a set of corresponding notes posted as a pdf below. For those unable to attend, if you wish to better understand why

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Editor’s Note This week’s issue tackles the accelerating emergence of autonomous systems—from brain-machine interfaces that extend human capacity to AI agents that take action on our behalf, and robots that may someday walk beside us (or in our stead). The stories covered herein are not only timely,

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The Turing Test for Humans Dear fellow Sojourner, After some "technical difficulty," our lastest episode of The Way of Tech is ready for distribution. Episode number 6 focuses on "The Turing Test for Humans;" asking not if we can distinguish machines from humans, but humans from

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Editor's Note: From Byproducts to Bridges: Designing Technology for Human Flourishing It is easy to think of technological progress in terms of accumulation: more data, more power, more speed, more capacity. We measure advancement in terabytes, petaflops, and market valuations. But this week’s stories invite us to

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Editor's Note: This week’s Exponential Times brings together a variety of stories: astronauts preparing to return to the Moon, a crew returning early from orbit due to a medical emergency, a major tech company scaling back virtual reality ambitions, and renewed scrutiny over how generative AI is

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Must See, Must Read | A YouTube Video and an Article We Highly Recommend Greetings sojourners. Due to required computer maintenance, there will not be a new episode of The Way of Tech this week. In its place, we'd like to share the YouTube video below featuring a TED

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Editor’s Note The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas—one of tech’s first major trade shows every year—once showcased novelty gadgets and futuristic concepts. Over the past decade it has quietly become a bellwether for where technology intersects with everyday life. CES 2026 (Jan. 6-9) followed

The Way of Tech

Dear Singularity Sanctuary sojourner, Please enjoy our latest episode of The Way of Tech. Episode #5 focuses on the entrepreneurial spirit, from the French word meaning "venture." It also means anybody can be an entrepreneur, whether in business or in life, because adventure is humanity's second

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Editor's Note: Diverse Signals in Tech, Medicine, and Society This week’s Exponential Times explores horizons as varied as neural interfaces and national tech policy. We glimpse tomorrow’s brain–machine possibilities, the power of AI in scientific discovery, generational debates over smartphones and social media, and corporate

The Way of Tech

Please enjoy Episode #4 of our online series, The Way of Tech. Being old enough to have grown up using basic hand tools, the show's creator and host learned a fundamental principle about all tools, no matter how simple or complex—Stop fighting the tool and start using

Singularity Circle

Greetings Singularity Sanctuary sojourners. As you know, our first Singularity Circle is happening this Sunday, January 3, at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. Our circle format is a work in progress and will solidify as we move forward with and learn what works best, what we want, and what we

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Editor’s Note: Extending Care Without Losing Ourselves This week’s developments point toward a subtle but significant shift: technology is extending human care and capability into domains once governed almost entirely by biological limits and human judgment. From neonatal medicine to energy infrastructure and education, these advances are less

Welcome Candace!

Candace, thanks for now being among the first of Singularity Sanctuary's members! Thanks to all of you (Bob and Britt, too 😄) for the support and trust you've placed in me. Your participation has led me to accelerate my commitment to providing quality products on a regular

BlueGreenHum Has a New Album!

Singularity Sanctuary's in-house AI Band, BlueGreenHum's latest album just went live! 2045, the year futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the Singularity will arrive, is also the title of BlueGreenHum's seventh album, a 21-track musical imagining of what life and humanity will be like by then.

The Way of Tech - Episode 3: Failure is Practice

Please enjoy this episode considering the importance of embracing failure as a necessary step, or steps, on the journey toward success in tech and in life. Knowing we will sometimes fail leads us to recognize the wisdom of taking iterative steps, learning from both our failures and successes before moving

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Editor’s Note: Intelligence Is Becoming Physical Much of the conversation around exponential technology still focuses on screens—models, apps, and interfaces. But this week’s tech stories point to something deeper and more consequential. Intelligence is no longer confined to software. It is reshaping energy systems, industrial infrastructure, capital

The Future is Arriving Early: Some of the Most Transformative Technologies of 2025

"What’s becoming clear is that the future is not something happening centuries from now. It is unfolding alongside us—and increasingly through us."

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Editors Note: AI Is Changing Medicine, and the Words We Use This week’s stories point to a quiet but profound shift. AI is earning regulatory trust in medicine, being adopted across generations, evolving toward energy-efficient designs inspired by human biology, and even influencing the language we use. At the

Cosmic Serenade

Dear Singularity Sanctuary Member, as you know, a major part of our mission is to help people feel less anxious about the exponential rate of change as we move toward the coming technological singularity. This is why we are committed to using technology as much as possible to show its

The Way of Tech - Episode 2: First Principles Thinking

Dear Members, I'm resending our latest episode of The Way of Tech, about First Principles Thinking, due to a typo caught by my elementary school teacher spouse. (It's building not biulding.) Plus, I've added some more futuristic fonts to my Premier Pro editing software,

The Way of Tech - Episode 3: Failure is Practice

Please enjoy this episode considering the importance of embracing failure as a necessary step, or steps, on the journey toward success in tech and in life. Knowing we will sometimes fail leads us to recognize the wisdom of taking iterative steps, learning from both our failures and successes before moving

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🌍 Top Tech Stories of the Week 🚀 Humanoid Robotics Take Three Giant Steps Forward Tesla, Figure, and EngineAI showcase breakthroughs in robotic mobility — and hint at a rapidly approaching inflection point This week may be remembered as a turning point in the evolution of humanoid robotics. In just a few days,