EVENT: San Diego Futurists GUEST SPEAKER: David Brin TALK: Probing for Quicksand WHEN: May 7, 2004: 8 - 9:30 pm (1st Friday of every month). *** THIS MONTH'S...
If anyone would like to rideshare down to SD from Santa Monica to see David Brin (leaving 3pm or so), please email me at TheGreyman@.... We should be ...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/05/the_singularity.html The Long Now Foundation in collaboration with the Future Salon are proud to...
Hi Futurists, Sorry for the late notice. Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/05/tonight_pre_nex.html Themes at Wired's Nextfest are: Communication,...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/05/when_is_a_futur.html Side note: I still have a couple of tickets for Wired's NextFest. If you are...
Please forgive my geo-OT post, but I'm having little luck finding a FS-like crowd in NYC. Jaron lives down the street somewhere, but still... Also looking for...
As Mark reported, a fair amount of the discussion Friday night centered around interrogation technology. Unfortunately, it's been made clear the last few days,...
"A milestone in digital democracy? " Mr. Keck...doesn't this belie the real issue? If Democracy ( what's left of it) has to go digital then we're already dead,...
... I wasn't suggesting that Democracy "has to" go digital; only that it would be remarkable (and admittedly convenient) if it does. Personally, I fully intend...
BAY AREA TRANSHUMANISTS PARTY May 14, 2004 7pm-9pm 5516 Broadway (Cross Street: Manila) Oakland 94618 Transhumanists will be descending on Palo Alto for the...
Hi: Do you ever wonder if the universe is infinite or finite? Do we have parallel worlds? Can you be in two places at once? Can we time- travel? What...
Just thought I'd drop another little prediction on the list. I predict that the US will lose the war in Iraq. I know you will say, "But US success has always...
File under: "The Future of Caffeine": Will it ever be declared a toxic drug or does one have to file a class action suit? OK..ok...ole Saigon Flashback (a.k.a....
If you request any of these articles I've got 'em on DVD. No...I can't bet busted for harboring with intent to distribute, it's just a .pdf journal! :) joschka...
I guess the situation at Ghraib prison has more than one precedent. ..as well the "broken treaties" as the witnessed by the WSJ's report, yesterday of how...
So...if globalism is really helping the poor...why did the poor dispose of Vajpayee? The yes men in the Indian press completely missed this one! "Ouch...I'll...
COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 19, 2004 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/...
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Hi Futurists, Some Future Salon <http://www.futuresalon.org/> Weblog posts from the last days: Dan Gillmor on the Collision of Journalism and Technology ...
Joschka Fischer a écrit : > a Platoon of Twitching Noses !!! ... (Unless you're the Americans or Israelis shootin' up the local protest march or wedding...
Big biotech conference coming to town. Usual angry activists protesting. What to do? I've written here before about the role of creative large group meeting...
As per the flier (cited below) regarding the biotech seminar.. "Biotechnology Industry's POTENTIAL PRESENCE"???? Uh...didn't the Wall Street Journal for May 20...
... I've been using the term social singularity to refer to social causes of the approaching transformation/big change (like Vinge's singularity but not...
Helloooooooooooooooo futurists! Yes, amazingly enough, it's me again, I am still alive. Yes, I know there's all sorts of stuff I promised to post, like a post...
Aren't FPGA's pretty much as generic as you can get? They care flexible enough to pretty much do many. I know that JPL and other robotics people use them for ...
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:14:51 -0700 (PDT), Troy Gardner ... Ok, historically, the answer would be no, FPGA's are not as generic as you can get. FPGA's -- field...