Hi Futurists, The book we will cover at our next Futurist Salon is Emergence from Steven Johnson.[1] How appropriate is then this great article about Emergent...
Hi Futurists, This[1] is a really interesting article about how a handful of webloggers through pointing to the article I posted about just two days ago (See...
Background on Emergent Democracy: Patrick Tyler article coined "second superpower" in the NYT, Feb 17: "...the huge anti-war demonstrations around the world...
John Abbe
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Apr 4, 2003 10:48 am
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... I wonder if there's enough danger to google core business to justify rewriting their core baby. After all the majority of the world isn't blogging yet, and...
Sending small packets of information over the richly interlinked Internet has turned out to be a pretty good way to handle information. The same approach is...
John Abbe
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Apr 5, 2003 2:57 am
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A physicist in South Africa claims to have created a new superconducting state of matter at room temperature. Johan Prins of the University of Pretoria...
More Than Just a Game, but How Close to Reality? http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/technology/circuits/03camp.html Military strategists could learn a thing or...
Hi Futurists, The wait is over. This Wednesday April 9th 7pm (I guess they moved the date from the time I first posted about it): "Are We There Yet? A Look at...
Hi Futurists, This is an interesting article[2] observing, that the starting point of us recording temperature was a relative cold era: "Since 1900, the world...
... Perhaps other factors contributing to tree ring characteristics swamp contributions from relatively small temperature changes, while relatively large...
music: Computer will "listen" to music and predict a song's chances of becoming a hit. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6119776%255E401,00.html ...
If your into robotics this is a must see. Taken from the robot version of comdex, it's a short tour of what was shown. One of my favorite scenes is a group of...
Hi Futurists, "Genetic and evolutionary computation" will be the theme of our next Futurist Salon the Friday the 18th of April. It is going to be presented by...
Another article about Robodex, about a Fijitsu robot that they claim can learn much faster. Fujitsu Labs Claims Humanoid Robot Breakthrough The learning system...
EVERYBODY! let's get together and make it a party this Fri. -ludm!la...
Lioudmila Golynskaia
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Apr 15, 2003 12:49 am
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Thanks -ludm!la. I almost forgot, but it is true: The Yahoo group was founded: Mar 29, 2002, but I posted for the first time on the 17th of April and our first...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/14/BU232924.DTL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Lioudmila Golynskaia
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Apr 15, 2003 1:31 am
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Dr. Christopher Chyba, from the SETI Institute and Stanford University, will be giving a talk on "The 21st Century Search for Extraterrestrial Life". The talk...
Hi Futurists, Come on out tomorrow to the Anniversary Futurist Salon (details further down). Yes, it has been one year already. "Time is fun, when you are...
Hey Mark, I wont be making the future as I am picking up John at the airport. However, I write to invite you to a very, very, I mean really very, early event...
green
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Apr 18, 2003 12:49 am
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Hi Futurists, Yesterday Mila wanted to know more about next week's O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference[2] in Santa Clara. If you look at the featured...
Thought I'd circulate this in case anyone here is interested. -Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next meeting of the NanoScience Exchange will be on Monday, 4/28...
Perhaps this explains one of life's greatest mysteries: why Bill Gates, the man who could afford to have more than 100,000 children, has only 3. Human...
I think these articles are on-topic. If not, please keep posting them anyway! BTW, here's a prediction, based on some neural AI theory I've been doing:...
Chris Phoenix
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Apr 20, 2003 3:54 pm
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... I concur while I didn't view all of them, I did view most of them and found the ones I viewed all relevant. In particular how the growth of supercomputing ...
S&T future scenarios Round 2 that you can fill out on-line is available. This is a pretty interesting thingamajig I found. It has some pretty well thought out...
... Yep. My theory predicts that the more modules the brain can recruit to follow an input, the faster and more thoroughly it can learn that input. Members...
Chris Phoenix
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Apr 20, 2003 9:47 pm
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GREAT summary article bringing together many points into a well connected web of relationships. David Brin, Transparency and an Open Society are related to...
This article is interesting reading, but has one major flaw: it does not distinguish between the information and the physical device. There has to be some...
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