Be there for VISION 2005 on 25th October 2005 – Mumbai : The Next Destination. During this one day event, learn from technology visionaries, meet with key...
+ New function for telomerase? + Telomerase promotes proliferation of resting stem cells through a mechanism that does not involve the extension of chromosomal...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/11/changing_the_po.html Micha Sifry was the eCampaign manager for Andrew Rasiej bid to become the...
Yes, believe it or not, I am FINALLY getting around to writing Part 2. (I posted "Future of Religion Part 1" on May 26th, as I'm sure you all remember :) . I...
Ask a Scientist - From Spatial Awareness To Consciousness Tue, Nov 8 7pm Free Topic: From Spatial Awareness To Consciousness It's hard to imagine how we would...
+ Daisy has all the digital answers to life on Earth + "Say you saw a butterfly, you might take a digital image of it, connect up to the world wide web and...
... Heh. I was one of the people watching on that camera. And I wish I had been at the event -- no so much because of the camera work but because of the...
Technology is just a tool, and will let people become more or less anxiety bound. Surfing the inexhaustable supply of news, the latest horrors of the world for...
Silicon Valley Chapter Meeting Programs Intro to DITA DITA is a rapidly emerging standard for authoring technical information in XML. It enables companies to...
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The ComBots Cup -- National Robot Fighting Championships (Sat/12-Sun/13) Scrap Metal Robots are cool. Robots fighting to the death are even cooler. At Fort...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS "Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights" May 26-28, 2006 Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California http://ieet.org/HEHR/...
One last perspective on the 'age of anxiety' theme... Does technology cause or alleviate stress? International Space Station astronaut Susan Helms says: ...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/11/collective_iq_p.html Update: Future Salon moved to Wednesday 30th of November. Many times I have...
Hi Futurists, Correction: Yahoo unfortunatelty counted the dot to the URL. Here the RSVP URL without the dot: http://tinyurl.com/9jbfj Bonus: Doug Engelbart...
Hello Futurists, I'd like to invite you to our discussion happening Wed. Nov. 16 inside Second Life. On Wed. the discussion will be "THE SINGULARITY". Where...
New Technique Multiplies Lifespan in Simple Organisms: USC Study Suggests Alternative Approach to Anti-Aging Research in Humans" November 17, 2005; A...
I worked out the math and the year that Islam exceeds Christianity and becomes the world's dominant religion is 2033. The year that it exceeds 50% of the...
... Growth rates of Islam in the 7th century might project to 99% of the world by 1900. Likewise for growth rates of Christianity in the 1st century. Such...
Before doing your math, have you noticed that social scientists in general, and scholars of religion in particular, are normally very reluctant to make...
The food you eat may change your genes for life IT SOUNDS like science fiction: simply swallowing a pill, or eating a specific food supplement, could...
... That is probably true of any religion when it is extremely small. Islam is extremely large and still growing extremely fast. ... What will change? If Islam...
... That's a good point. But was Islam an "extremely small" % of the world population in the 7th century? Was Christianity during the Dark Ages? ... What...
It's not at all clear that religion is a first order input when making predictions about the future. Religion is very much derivative of culture, geography,...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/11/changing_the_po.html This is going to be a really interesting Future Salon next Wednesday ...
... It seems that in your prediction you assumed that growth rate will last for many years. Although I am ignorant about religion related research and its...
... I don't follow this argument. Why would a merge suppose abandonment of religion? Using your earlier suggestion that Christians accommodated technology...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/11/future_salon_op.html Unfortunately Doug doesn't feel well and this is why we postponed the...
A friend of mine once asked a Catholic priest friend of his, suppose there is intelligent life on some other planet. Did Jesus go to that planet and get...
Hi Futurists, Small reminder, tomorrow Wednesday Open Mic Future Salon at SAP. It will be the last one for this year and I am actually happy that it will be a...
DJ Cline Commentary 11-30-05 Copyright 2005 All rights reserved. Commentary I, Podbot I’ve been using iPods since they came out. A music system that used to ...