Meshing Developmental Evolution and Technology

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 26, 2005 @02:27PM 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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Teen fanboy? by empaler · 2005-03-26 14:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Mr. Banks is a fantastic writer. I have read all of his sci-fi books. He tells wonderful stories.

But so did H. C. Anderson.

Please, they're great books, but if there's anything turns out to be right in a thousand years, it'll be more luck than aught else. Enjoy the stories and leave zealotry to those who are better at it...