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Speaking of big computation, cyberspace isn’t yet as potent as Neal Stephenson portrayed in Snow Crash and subsequent books, but it’s getting there. A new article in the [...]
Speaking of big computation, cyberspace isn’t yet as potent as Neal Stephenson portrayed in Snow Crash and subsequent books, but it’s getting there. A new article in the [...]
If you can't make it to Harvard this weekend, June 12-13, you'll want to catch the live webcast of the H+ Summit: "Rise of the Citizen Scientist". No link yet, [...]
In the mailbag today: A new fiction book Beyond Guilty by Richard Brawer, who got help on it from Robert Freitas, winner of the 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for [...]
Robin Hanson comments on David Brin's response to a New Scientist editorial. As Brin notes, many would-be broadcasters come from an academic area where for decades the standard assumption has [...]
The first time I met Eric Drexler, I complained to him, "You've ruined science fiction for me." (He replied, "If it's any consolation, I ruined it for myself.") The reason, [...]
"Science advances, funeral by funeral." (often attributed to Timothy Ferris) The blogosphere has been abuzz over the past week or so with the release of data -- emails and program [...]
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 [...]
Previous in series: VTOL So, how close are we to flying cars? For specificity, let's pick a technological bar to hurdle that answers most of the objections to the concept [...]
Historical Note It's appropriate on this July 7 to make at least a reference to the history of ideas that lies behind the Feynman Path. That's because July 7 is [...]
Charlie Stross, the British science fiction writer, recently posted a “21st Century FAQ” on his blog that has aroused some reaction in futurist circles. Let it be noted that I’ve [...]