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Date: August 11th, 2002

Converging Technologies for improving human perfomance

11 August, 2002 (22:23) | Technology | No comments

If you, like me, are imterested in techology, how it affects your life today and how it will change the world in the future the National Science Foundation has published a 405 page .pdf document called "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE" that should be a must on [...]

The future is invisible

11 August, 2002 (17:48) | Miscellaneous | No comments

Jeffrey Harrow quoting from
"The Invisible Future"
by Peter J. Denning
ISBN: 0071382240
"The future is invisible because our expectations are based on the intuitive linear view, rather than the historical exponential view. When people conceive of the future, they conceive of circumstances made different by the continued progression of the current rate of change.
In reality, change is accelerating [...]

 

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