Joseph Carvalko is a lawyer with many decades of experience who bravely sued the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States for deserting a POW in Korea. Carvalko is also an engineer and inventor with 10 patents in fields spanning bio-medicine, electronics and the financial services.
Joseph is the author of an interesting and very well researched book titled The Techno-Human Shell: A Jump in the Evolutionary Gap, as well as a poet, jazz pianist and a cyborg. And so it wasn’t hard to see that Carvalko would make a great guest for Singularity 1 on 1 the moment I met him.
During our conversation with Joseph we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: his unique path to starting up a legal practice as a trial lawyer; how and why he sued the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States, and his consequent book We Were Beautiful Once; the story of how he himself became a cyrborg as the genesis for The Techno-Human Shell; whether copyright and patents hurt or promote progress; NSA surveillance programs such as PRISM; the Turing Test and legal rights for Artificial Intelligence; his take on the technological singularity…
