Amara D. Angelica is Editor-At-Large of KurzweilAI, where she has written more than 18,000 articles on breakthroughs in science and technology.

She worked with author-inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil on his The Singularity Is Near – When Humans Transcend Biology, the foundational book on the Singularity; How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed; and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever.

Amara was co-lead author of “Brain/Cloud Interface,” published in 2019 in the journal Frontiers of Neuroscience (with more than 100,000 reader visits), exploring future technology that could give people instant access to vast knowledge and computing power (and to “telepathy-like links to each other) via thought alone. She and the team are currently writing an updated paper on the uses and ethics of this technology and current breakthroughs.

An electrical engineer, she was co-inventor of electrocardiogram sensors for diagnosis of arrhythmia patients (U.S patent assigned to Medicomp) and co-inventor for three bioelectronics patent applications.

She formerly held a Top Secret clearance on the U2 program, Secret clearance on an analysis of the global U.S. Navy electronic-intelligence system, and Confidential clearance on human factors design of aircraft electronic countermeasures systems for the U.S. Navy EA6B.

Amara wrote some of the earliest published articles on internet/web technologies in Mondo 2000 magazine (1992-1995) and Techweek magazine (1998- 2000).

She was a member of the board of directors of the National Space Society 2008–2012 and a co-founder of Singularity University in 2009.