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• Since automation and Artificial Intelligence are already upon us and are not now reversable, we must deal with both of those elements and consider how we might implement imperatives to protect us from becoming obsolete.

  – James Randi
  Founder, JREF

  

• The Singularity Summit is the premier conference on the Singularity. As we get closer to the Singularity, each year's conference is better than the last.

  – Ray Kurzweil
  CEO, Kurzweil Technologies

  

• Futurists like to predict how genetic engineering and computational implants will allow humans to become a super-species, but few examine the application of similar technologies to nonhumans.

  – Irene Pepperberg
  Founder, Alex Foundation

  
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Biographies: Mark Gorenberg

Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, joined Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 1990. He has served as a board member for start-up and public software companies, including AdForce, HomeGrocer, NetDynamics and Scopus Technologies. Currently, he serves as a Director of Aria Systems, Cenzic, Infopia, ontheFRONTIER, Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), Replay Solutions, and Sonatype.

Mark is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and The Environment.

Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Mark managed a number of new media areas and was a member of the original SparcStation I team at Sun Microsystems. He received a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MSEE from the University of Minnesota, and an MS in Engineering Management from Stanford University.