VENEER MAGAZINE 01/18

Ve 01/18 features an article about a World of Warcraft addiction, a point-and-shoot digital camera review, a post-Mormon forgery investigation, Kevin Kelly speaking about the Singularity with a response by Ray Kurzweil, an account of a nasty radiation accident in Brasil, and something about France by prolific filmmaker George Kuchar.

This issue of Ve was performed at an indoor paintball arena with writers reading their articles aloud, defended from the aggressive audience only by editorial staff. The magazine failed.

Included among other inserts in Ve 01/18 is an errata by Aaron Flint Jamison and a signed George Kuchar poster by Joshua Pieper.

ISBN: 978-1-934399-01-9
COVER: 3/1, TEXT: 1/1, 4/4, 1/0
124 PP, LETTERPRESSED, OFFSET
14cm X 30.5cm
RETAIL EDITION: 700
2007, 25 USD

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AN EXCERPT FROM RAY KURZWEIL'S RESPONSE TO "THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR" BY KEVIN KELLY, PAGE 79:

"You write, 'Kurzweil found that if you make a very crude comparison between the processing power of neurons in human brains and the processing powers of transistors in computers, you could map out the point at which computer intelligence will exceed human intelligence.' That is an oversimplification of my analysis. I provide in my book four different approaches to estimating the amount of computation required to simulate all regions of the human brain based on actual functional recreations of brain regions. These all come up with answers in the same range, from 10^14 to 10^16 cps for creating a functional recreation of all regions of the human brain, so I've used 10^16 cps as a conservative estimate."