Hi Futurists, I should read less and post more. I have a bunch of notes from the Emerging Technology Conference[2] last week but I don't get around to post...
I missed the SETI talk but I went to the Zimbardo talk, "The Rational and Social Paths to Creating Madness in Normal People" actually did not have enough time...
Thanks, Troy. What I find most interesting about your post is that the post that I made was specifically about the stock market, and in your response you...
It never really connected in my head before that there are untold numbers of those X10 wireless cams being bought and installed everywhere this device's link...
Bacteria have found a new vocation - as nanoscale construction workers. Such bugs might form microbial machines that could repair wounds or build microscopic...
... Foresight's Gatherings are officially off the record, so I'm hesitant to report much. Here are two surprising claims that I heard at the Gathering that are...
Hi Peter, Thanks for the links. ... hesitant to report much. I thought they got rid of that clause last year when there was Dan Gillmor from the San Jose...
... I've been insisting on "Nonrivalrous Goods" for awhile, though perhaps that's too strange sounding or dissimilar. For the subset of NGs controlled by...
... Most of the changes that people are noticing have been due to cyclical factors. People's attitude towards leverage (price/earnings ratios, debt levels,...
... I'm not aware of any change in policy. I suspect it's not too hard to get permission to report much of the interesting stuff, and for about half the...
I think now is a good time to repost the "List of Laws" since I have added quite a few new ones to the list. Laws added: Cooper's Law, from the post yesterday,...
Yes, last year they suspended the "off the record" policy as an experiment, but this year they decided to go back to the old way, off the record. I don't know...
... How effective will welfare laws passed now be at influencing the laws of societies dominated by machine intelligence? An alternative strategy over which we...
... It should get more use, but I suspect a fair number of people don't try to understand it because it sounds like you need to be an economist to understand...
How SARS Is Muddying the Tech Outlook Manufacturers are boosting inventories in case the virus shutters suppliers -- a trend that makes a tech rebound that...
... My guess would be -- not very or not at all. But I can't say for sure. Sometimes laws seem to get passed and stuck in the system forever, sometimes they...
Found this somewhere today, might have to search through their crazy database to find. Erik A curious and delicious look into 3 physicists analysis of what the...
Hello! My research partner and I are professors at University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. We are conducting an online...
Smart Robot Autos Tough It Out By Elliot Borin Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,58540,00.html 02:00 AM May. 07, 2003 PT American...
Just an informal bet. 250miles/10 hrs is +25mph as they have to refill themselves. Not being any particular expert in image recognition, or robotics. Here's my...
There are not just optical illusions, there are auditory illusions as well. Here's a neat little auditory illusion I didn't know about before. It's called the...
Hey Troy, Nice to see I'm not the only one sticking my neck out and making predictions! I'll save this post and we'll see how well your predictions pan out. ...
If you find seeing how people/science fictions saw the future, and comparing it with how some of it actually is, or how we think it will be, this has got some ...
Hi Futurists, It is amazing how often a week before our Futurist Salon there is an event or story that fits into our theme. This month we cover sustainable...
If you go to any of these, please post a summary. Mark and I are trying to get a tradition started :) On May 12, 4:15pm, David Yarowsky of Johns Hopkins ...
Hi Futurists, I am part of the team that is making sure that Accelerated Change Conference ACC2003[2] is going to be a great event. Which has it's challenges...
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