Not able to attend the Open Science Summit on July 29-31 in Berkeley, California? We'll miss you, but you can watch the conference live at: http://fora.tv/live/open_science/open_science_summit_2010 Put it on your [...]
Longtime Foresight friend Robert Grudin has a new book Design and Truth, just reviewed by the New York Times. The review quotes Grudin on designers: “However grand their aspirations, they [...]
David Cassel brings our attention to an h+ review of the long-awaited film The Singularity is Near, based on the book by Ray Kurzweil: In documentary style, we have Ray [...]
Aunt Polly: Tom, it's time for your bath. And make sure to wash behind your ears. Tom: But gosh, Aunt Polly, I couldn't do that. It might cause the end [...]
One more comment on the post by Mike Treder that I addressed last time. Recall he wrote Techno-rapturists among our reading audience might be quick to respond with glib answers [...]
In Popular Mechanics, longtime Foresight friend Prof. Glenn Reynolds looks at the future of nanotech and artificial intelligence, among other things looking at safety issues, including one call that potentially [...]
IEEE Spectrum: German Environmental Agency Miffed at Exploitation of Position Paper on Nanotechnology. From Dexter Johnson at nanoclast: Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) last week made a background paper available [...]
Back in my Moral Railroads post I opined: Unless I am completely mistaken and deluded, there was and is nobodyassociated with the DC train system who wanted the crash to happen. [...]
On 9/11/01 I stood at Newark airport in New Jersey waiting for my flight to Toronto, which never flew. The airport was in clear sight of the World Trade Center [...]
Last week I posted an essay in which I claimed that the Singularity could be said to be halfway here already because we had already set up a huge program [...]