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Santa Cruz Future Salon (at UCSC)

We discuss emerging technologies shaping the future of the world. This includes the effects of accelerating change and the convergence of cybernetics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology and their implications for society. We explore the ethical use of technology to expand human capabilities and the merging of biological and non-biological intelligence. Free and open to the public.

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Previous Salons:

"Beyond an Inconvenient Truth" / Michele Whizin
"What if information were free?" / Andrew Rondeau Jeff L Jones
"Personal Fab Labs and their social implication" / Nick Ernst
"Flying through Human Knowledge" / Patrick McKercher, Instructor/UCSC, Project Manager/K-Web
"After the (Inconvenient) Truth - What Next?" / Robert Cormia (Foothill College)
"Google Earth: Your Backyard and Beyond" / Megan Goddard (Google Earth)
"Technological Literacy: Understanding and Evaluating our Tools" / Miguel F. Aznar (author Technology Challenged)
"Will bona fide life evolve from within human technology?" / Bruce Damer (Biota.org, DigiBarn, DigitalSpace)
"End of Cyberspace" / Alex Pang (Institute for the Future)
"Searching for the Big Picture: Systems Theories of Accelerating Change" / John Smart (Acceleration Studies Foundation)
"Transhumanism and The Ethics of Human Enhancement" / James Hughes (author Citizen Cyborg)
"Stem Cells" / Christopher Scott (author Stem Cell Now)

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Wearable Electronic Senses (Sunday Night) Hi all, this Sunday the Santa Cruz Salon is having Eric Boyd speak about his experiments in Wearable Electronic Senses. We will also get a chance to play with Posted - Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:39 pm	Nick el_capitan_nick Offline Send Email
Ever considered teaching? - Encorps Webinar Invitation If you've ever considered teaching or substitute teaching, you may want to attend one of EnCorps informational webinars to see how you can get started. We Posted - Tue Feb 2, 2010 8:44 pm	Elise Engelhardt elise_manufengr Offline Send Email
New Future Salon Network Page on Facebook. Thanks for becoming a Fan Hi Santa Cruz Future Makers! I know the SC Future Salon has been inactive for a while now, but hopefully one of you brave souls will reactivate it again in the Posted - Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:50 am	john_m_smart Offline Send Email
Take Flight for Kids August 8 - Reid Hillview There's a great free festival going on this weekend at Reid Hillview Airport(see below). From: dean@... [mailto:dean@...] Greetings! Take Posted - Thu Aug 6, 2009 11:28 am	Elise Engelhardt elise_manufengr Offline Send Email
FIRST Robotics (Mar 11-14) needs volunteer signups now! Also website Hello all! I'm writing to ask for your help. I'm working on getting together the approximately 100 volunteers we need to put on the FIRST Robotics Competition Posted - Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:58 am	Elise Engelhardt elise_manufengr Offline Send Email
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