Advertisement mixing high ideals with the lowest common demoninator. Got my attention! Haha. http://shakeshock.com employs user-submitted videos to explore great works of literature. Interesting concept, although execution isn't quite there yet.

Big Think Link Launched in early January 2008, Big Think is a site with short video clips of leading thinkers in business and society. The New York based start-up, founded by former Charlie Rose producers Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins, has been getting plenty of buzz this week from The New York Times, the Telegraph and TechCrunch.

I watched the video and also the newer 30 minute piece that is on google video from the link you posted.   They make the point that superintelligence is not science fiction but based on the work over the last 50 years. Like the atomic research in the 1930's they make the point that future science can and does generate ...