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Edge: The World Question Center 2009
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
science  future  essays 
january 2009 by stuhlmueller
The Role and Future Prospects for Math/Computational Theories
Panel discussion on the role of theoretical neuroscience at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.
neuroscience  future  video 
june 2008 by stuhlmueller
Whimsley: "The Big Picture, Which Is That There Isn't Any"
Do the big decisions and ideas make less of an impact than the low-level, detailed specifics of each situation?
sociology  future  decisions 
january 2008 by stuhlmueller
Headmap - Location Aware Devices (PDF)
"The internet has already started leaking into the real world. Headmap argues that when it gets truly loose the world will be new again."
internet  location  future  space 
january 2008 by stuhlmueller
Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems
Multidisciplinary effort to explore how current laboratory techniques for atomically precise fabrication can be extended, step by step, toward increasingly advanced products and capabilities.
nanotechnology  future  research  plan 
december 2007 by stuhlmueller
Boosting your brainpower: Ethical aspects of cognitive enhancements (BMA)
Discusses current and future methods of cognitive enhancement, ethical implications and how we, as a society, ought to respond. Comprehensive and balanced.
cognition  brain  transhumanism  ethics  future 
november 2007 by stuhlmueller
Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph
In a not-too-distant future, everything we're doing online will be connected to our node in the social graph, independent of specific social network applications. Privacy is going away and we will like it.
social  network  community  future  privacy 
october 2007 by stuhlmueller
2020 Science
"An international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fifteen years."
science  future  microsoft  2020  computing 
june 2007 by stuhlmueller
Shaping the Future (Charles Stross)
Meet your descendants. They don't know what it's like to be involuntarily lost, don't understand what we mean by the word "privacy", and will have access to a historical representation of our species that defies understanding.
future  technology  prediction  singularity 
may 2007 by stuhlmueller
The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth (Fortune)
Peter Diamandis, creator of the X-Prize: "The Singularity, for anyone who stops and thinks about it, is completely obvious." And: Ray Kurzweil is running a Hedge fund guided by an artificial intelligence program. Billionaire Vinod Khosla invests.
ai  kurzweil  singularity  future 
may 2007 by stuhlmueller
The Coming Technological Singularity (Vernor Vinge, 1993)
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive?"
singularity  ai  vinge  future 
april 2007 by stuhlmueller
Artificial intelligence within our lifetime? No idle speculation
Attempts to argue that there are several ways by which artificial intelligence may be developed in the near future, and that the probability of this happening is high enough that the possibility needs to be considered when making plans for the future.
ai  future  singularity 
march 2007 by stuhlmueller
What's wrong with our universe (Starglider)
"You seriously want to keep living in a place where only a vanishingly small fraction of dreams are ever realised (and in which even our imaginations are only capable of charting a tiny fraction of the possible)?"
motivation  future  transhumanism 
march 2007 by stuhlmueller
Did You Know? Shift Happens.
A video presentation that artfully presents the impending effects of globalization and the exponentially growing development of new technologies to describe the future.
video  globalization  information  motivation  future 
february 2007 by stuhlmueller
Dancing toward the singularity (Jed Harris)
"I now think that we actually could end up with a fairly sharp discontinuity that plays the role of the singularity, but is spread out in time and space."
singularity  future  society 
february 2007 by stuhlmueller
What is the one thing everyone should learn about science?
Martin Rees, professor of cosmology: "I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead — for our planet, and for life itself."
science  philosophy  quotes  future 
january 2007 by stuhlmueller
Das Dilemma von Gegenwart und Zukunft (tiefgedacht)
"Lebe so, dass du dein Leben nie bereust — wann immer es zu Ende ist."
philosophy  dilemma  future  present  alex 
january 2007 by stuhlmueller
Supertechnology Areas - a Concept Map (Danila)
How computers (the basis for modern science and technology) are related to immortality (the ultimate goal - one of them).
supertechnology  future  technology 
january 2007 by stuhlmueller
The World Question Center 2007
A collection of essays by 160 leading thinkers telling what they are optimistic about in 2007.
science  future  ideas 
january 2007 by stuhlmueller
Why AGI May Be Near (SL4 Wiki)
Reasons why general AI may be accomplished, with effective, diligent effort, within 10 to 30 years.
sl4  ai  future  reference 
december 2006 by stuhlmueller
Anti-Transhumanist Gobbledygook (Accelerating Future)
"People that believe in dying have a tendency to select themselves out of the discussion. Meanwhile, their children read Dawkins and Kurzweil and dream of living forever in this, our real world."
transhumanism  society  future 
december 2006 by stuhlmueller
Predicting The Future (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Keynote address given by Eliezer Yudkowsky at the New York Transhumanist Association: World Futures Symposium.
future  futurism  yudkowsky  transhumanism  talk 
december 2006 by stuhlmueller
Future of Humanity Institute
"FHI studies big picture questions for humanity. We look especially at how anticipated technological developments could affect the human condition, and how we could better understand, evaluate, and respond to radical change."
future  bostrom  transhumanism  ethics 
november 2006 by stuhlmueller
Why Work Toward The Singularity
Trying to answer directly why superintelligence matters chokes on a dozen different simultaneous replies; what matters is the entire future growing out of that beginning.
singularity  ai  singinst  future  introduction 
november 2006 by stuhlmueller
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction by Jason Matheny
The probability of existential risks may be very low, but the expected value of preventing them could be high, as it represents the value of all future lives. This paper reviews the challenges to studying human extinction risks.
future  existentialrisks  research 
october 2006 by stuhlmueller
A possible declining trend for worldwide innovation (pdf)
A comparison is made between a model of technology in which the level of technology advances exponentially without limit and a model with an economic limit.
innovation  technology  future  economy 
october 2006 by stuhlmueller
Deep Time, part I, by Gregory Benford
"The nuclear waste markers will be our society's largest conscious attempt to communicate across the abyss of deep time."
time  science  art  future 
september 2006 by stuhlmueller
Immortalist Utilitarianism by Michael Anissimov
Tries to convey the huge value of extending the human life span for millions or billions of people.
immortality  future  cryonics  anissimov 
september 2006 by stuhlmueller
Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC
Transcript of Vinge's talk on his vision of the future as depicted in "Rainbows End".
vinge  future  futurism  scifi  talk 
september 2006 by stuhlmueller
Fred, Version 26,342,372 by John Distazo
"Is this heaven?" Fred wanted to know. The man shrugged. "That's going to be up to you, Fred."
future  religion  singularity  story 
september 2006 by stuhlmueller
From 2100 to the End of Time by Frank J. Tipler
The year is 2100. AI's and human downloads have begun to explore and colonize interstellar space.
future  cosmology  tipler 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Mitch Kapor on the Power of Second Life
Mitch Kapor speculates about “some of the larger meaning of it all and where we might be going.”
secondlife  culture  future 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
anthropic-principle.com
Popular overviews and scholarly material on everything related to observation selection effects, the anthropic principle, self-locating belief, and associated applications and paradoxes in science and philosophy.
science  cosmology  future  philosophy  bostrom 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Long Now: Views: Essays
The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking.
essays  writings  future 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Accelerating Future
Michael Anissimov
blog  singularity  future 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
A nonprofit research think tank and public interest institute for the study and advancement of beneficial artificial intelligence.
singularity  future  ai 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
A nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to ensuring that humanity safely adopts increasingly powerful technologies.
future  singularity  safety 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller

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