In this session of the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, Self-Aware Systems founder Stephen Omohundro leads a discussion in which we will try to design the year 2030 assuming that we have both self-improving artificial intelligence and productive nanotechnology. We'll consider some of the likely characteristics of these technologies such as ...

In the opening instalment, Kaku explains how artificial intelligence will revolutionise homes, workplaces and lifestyles, and how virtual worlds will become so realistic that they will rival the physical world. Robots with human-level intelligence may finally become a reality, and in the ultimate stage of mastery, we'll even be ...