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http://accelerating.org/articles/answeringfermipar adox.html

" Let's not forget about all of the innovation that has occurred under this "flawed" system."

Where is the cause and effect.

I personally put it down to a kind and loving Roman Pope that made Jesus smile down on us.

The only difference between our claims is that you can't prove mine wrong, but I could prove yours wrong easily.

For instance many people are claiming that innovation is decreasing precisely for the reasons you provide conjecture that it is increasing. For example in the article "A Possible Declining Trend for Worldwide Innovation", Jonathan Huebner in the September 2005 issue claims new, important discoveries and inventions are decreasing in no small part to our draconian patent system (http://accelerating.org/articles/huebnerinnovatio n.html ).

So if you think its increasing, you'd better claim that Allah, or Jesus, or Budda told you that, because no facts actually back that up.

Sorry.

Not sure they all qualify as blogs, but here are some great sources for news related to interests such as tranhumanist discussions...

Accelerating Times and their blog.
KurzweilAI (one of my favorites).
SL4
Yahoo Transhuman Group

Just to list a few...

Hi /.,

For articles on the Linguistic User Interface see:
http://singularitywatch.com/lui.html
http://singularitywatch.com/promontorypoint.html

For more on Evolutionary Development:
http://singularitywatch.com/convergentevolution.ht ml

If you find the topic of accelerating technological change fascinating and important you might enjoy our e-newsletter, Accelerating Times :
http://accelerating.org/news/signup.php3

You might also wish to attend our annual fall conference at Stanford, Accelerating Change .
Past conference public archives are at the website of our nonprofit, the Acceleration Studies Foundation:
http://accelerating.org/

We are still early in understanding our universal, cultural, and technological records of accelerating change, and this topic may be the most important and valuable one we could consider, as change and its opportunities may come faster every year forward for the rest of our lives.

We'd love any of you with interest in these fascinating topics to join our community.
Hope to meet some of you at Stanford in September.

Best,
John Smart
President, ASF

Hi /.,

For articles on the Linguistic User Interface see:
http://singularitywatch.com/lui.html
http://singularitywatch.com/promontorypoint.html

For more on Evolutionary Development:
http://singularitywatch.com/convergentevolution.ht ml

If you find the topic of accelerating technological change fascinating and important you might enjoy our e-newsletter, Accelerating Times :
http://accelerating.org/news/signup.php3

You might also wish to attend our annual fall conference at Stanford, Accelerating Change .
Past conference public archives are at the website of our nonprofit, the Acceleration Studies Foundation:
http://accelerating.org/

We are still early in understanding our universal, cultural, and technological records of accelerating change, and this topic may be the most important and valuable one we could consider, as change and its opportunities may come faster every year forward for the rest of our lives.

We'd love any of you with interest in these fascinating topics to join our community.
Hope to meet some of you at Stanford in September.

Best,
John Smart
President, ASF

Accelerating Change
IdeaFlow
trends
Technologies Timeline(yawn:-)

Was it the fact that the keynote speaker cross-dresses as a 25-year-old rock star that tipped you off?

For more info on O'Reilly's far-out views on technology, be sure to catch him at the upcoming Accelerating Change Conference 2003 in September at Stanford. Other speakers will include Ray Kurzweil, John Koza, Howard Bloom, Eric Drexler, Robert Wright, and many, many others. There aren't many conferences that can manage this kind of big-picture analysis of trends in accelerating change.