Beer & Tall Buildings

RAMageddon REDUX

It's been 5 months since the airing of our technological singularity episode, and the advances have been rolling in at an exponential rate, just as the futurists predicted they would: researchers at Northwestern University have developed circuit boards that would allow computers to essentially rewire themselves to meet their ever-growing demands; the company Narrative Science has been busy hammering out computer-generated sports reports with ever increasing accuracy; and now there’s Siri, the iPhone 4S' voice app, who’s making small talk about everything from the weather to the meaning of life. The end sounds increasingly near...and awesome. So let's take a listen back at Episode 006: RAMageddon.