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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

🌍 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,

Hey Britt, thanks for joining! Since you're brand new, I'm sending you the two posts I sent out this week, my latest Newsletter just this morning, and my first episode of The Way of Tech, yesterday. They'll come in separate emails. Let me know

Welcome to Exponential Times — your weekly guide to the breakthroughs shaping our future. 🌍 Top Tech Stories of the Week U.S. Government Launches “Genesis Mission”: A Federal AI Super-Platform The United States has unveiled the Genesis Mission, an unprecedented attempt to build a unified federal AI system capable of processing

The Way of Tech is a new and regular Singularity Sanctuary production, hosted by our curator, Todd Eklof. Its purpose is to explore how some of the principles related to technology might also benefit us in our daily lives. Our first episode considers how learning to tolerate the noise and

Welcome to Exponential Times — your weekly guide to the breakthroughs shaping our future. 🌍 Top Tech Stories of the Week Graphene Supercapacitors Rival Traditional Batteries Researchers at Monash University in Australia have engineered a multiscale graphene architecture that enables supercapacitors to reach energy densities comparable to lead-acid batteries while still delivering

Welcome to Exponential Times — your weekly guide to the breakthroughs shaping our future. 🌍 Top Tech Story of the Week OpenAI launches GPT-5.1: Adaptive reasoning at scale OpenAI has released GPT-5.1, in two flavors: Instant (fast, everyday use) and Thinking (slower, deeper reasoning). The “Thinking” model uses adaptive reasoning

I'm so excited to have our very first Singularity Sanctuary member, my friend Bob B! Bob, you'll likely be the only person to see his post, but it gives me a chance to make sure our email is functioning properly. There are a couple of quotes