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Using the technology his animation is about, illustrator Lew Keller has created a three minute whiteboard animation about Ray Kurzweil and the meaning of the Singularity.

The whiteboard animation above explains, in three minutes, the Technological Singularity, a concept made famous by Ray Kurzweil and other futurists.

Technological change is happening at an exponential rate, leading to a date in a future we can barely glimpse. Kurzweil, author of the book, The Singularity Is Near.

The film was illustrated  shot, edited and co-written by Australian artist and illustrator, Lew Keilar and Stephen Smith served as co-writer and collaborator.

According to Keiler,

This film is about the Singularity, the most profound single prediction of the future I've encountered since Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarkes' 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This extraordinary concept, that human evolution is progressing towards a time of transcendent change, is fundamental to any celebration of technological innovation. 

Keller is an illustrator who has been able to animate his work and become a film maker because of these technological advances.

Innovation in software and computing power has given him access to new modes of expression once only the province of major film and animation studios.



Keiler's passion for the Visual Arts extends into film as well as illustration, both as an observer and as budding film-maker.