Here's a link to the Foresight Institute's Engines of Creation 2000 Confronting Singularity conference page. The conference is happening next weekend. The page outlines some of the thinking behind the event. Here's a blurb:
In the next one-to-three decades we expect to see these capabilities:
"strong" nanotechnology
genetic engineering of humans
the end of aging
advanced machine intelligence (call it what you will)
encrypted private currencies
thorough surveillance and sensing, able to detect what you ate,drank, and smoked last night
bio/chem/nano weapons of mass destruction
human civilization expanding into space
Such a future is so different from human history that we can barely imagine it. Some call it a "Singularity" beyond which our best projections are useless...
Heady stuff from some very well respected researchers.
WOW BABY--still think captain beefheart will still sound good to mt clone!!--you changed the system--why??--hope your well--RTR
found this from your link into burning man link---
Telluride Tech Festival
A celebration of past, present and future of technology in the
festival capital of the rockies. Historical honoress, Nikola Tesla,
George Westinghouse and L.L. Nunn, who built the world's first
alternating current power plant in Telluride in 1891 and three recent
individuals who have changed the world will be tributed. Additional
activities include art, music, contests and competitions. Tickets are
limited. Come celebrate in the place where the technology revolution
was born.---heres the linkhttp://www.telluridetechfestival.com/
from that link---First, the historical program. Representatives of the Nikola Tesla Museum, and
Memorial Society will be here to exhibit and explain the life and times of one of the
world's greatest inventors. The man that invented alternating current generators and
motors, the vacuum tube, fluorescent lighting, the radio, wireless communi-cation
and oscillators, to name a few. They plan on bringing never before seen papers,
memorabilia and exhibits, including an original 25 foot high TESLA COIL--love wheel
jim i type in mike password wheel and it still come out as anonymous---PS i want name as wheel and password aiko PLEASE (i dont like mike)
my name is wheel
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Heady stuff from some very well respected researchers.
- jim 5-15-2000 5:50 pm
WOW BABY--still think captain beefheart will still sound good to mt clone!!--you changed the system--why??--hope your well--RTR
- anonymous (guest) 5-15-2000 10:55 pm
found this from your link into burning man link--- Telluride Tech Festival A celebration of past, present and future of technology in the festival capital of the rockies. Historical honoress, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and L.L. Nunn, who built the world's first alternating current power plant in Telluride in 1891 and three recent individuals who have changed the world will be tributed. Additional activities include art, music, contests and competitions. Tickets are limited. Come celebrate in the place where the technology revolution was born.---heres the linkhttp://www.telluridetechfestival.com/
- anonymous (guest) 5-15-2000 11:12 pm
from that link---First, the historical program. Representatives of the Nikola Tesla Museum, and Memorial Society will be here to exhibit and explain the life and times of one of the world's greatest inventors. The man that invented alternating current generators and motors, the vacuum tube, fluorescent lighting, the radio, wireless communi-cation and oscillators, to name a few. They plan on bringing never before seen papers, memorabilia and exhibits, including an original 25 foot high TESLA COIL--love wheel
- anonymous (guest) 5-15-2000 11:16 pm
jim i type in mike password wheel and it still come out as anonymous---PS i want name as wheel and password aiko PLEASE (i dont like mike)
- anonymous (guest) 5-15-2000 11:18 pm
my name is wheel
- anonymous (guest) 5-16-2000 1:55 am