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Meshing Developmental Evolution and Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the where-are-my-flying-cars? dept.

Jerry23 writes "IT Conversations has free audio of a very provocative talk by futurist and developmental systems theorist, John Smart. He weaves a big-picture narrative featuring developmental evolution, technological acceleration, computational autonomy, the emergence and behavior of human social systems, why prediction has such a poor history, the unique growth properties of Information and Communication Technology and the limitations of biotech, finally culminating in his case for the inevitability of digital personality capture and a ubiquitous Linguistic User Interface. Among many other things, he asks 'What will Windows (and the Google Browser) of 2015 look like?'"

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  1. Re:Singularity by FleaPlus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Indeed. Here are some pretty good Wikipedia articles on the topic:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singula rity
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularitarianism

  2. More on the Linguistic User Interface and Evo-Devo by John+Smart · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Key breakthrough: the Intentional Stance by throwaway18 · · Score: 2, Informative
    For instance, we know Google can't tell if you clicked a link in the search result page directly

    They can if you have the google toolbar installed.