On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * The Aging Couple >> * Corporate America's Next Big Scandal >> * Innovative Infrastructure >> * The Day After: When Electronic Voting Machines Fail >> * Reality Check for Defense Spending >> * A New Anti-American Coalition >> * The Future of Diplomacy: Real Time or Real Estate? >> * Corporate Counterinsurgency >> * Beating the Germ Insurgency >> * A Second Reproductive Revolution >> * From Nation-State to Nexus-State > > I'm fascinated that AI and nanotechnology are not mentioned at > all. Even the emerging revolution in biology isn't mentioned. I agree that nanotech definitely needs to be in there, as does water (which I think will be the cause of the next round of wars). I am a little more ambiguous about AI - especially since we don't really have a good definition of what the "I" in "AI" is. OTOH, this[1] is thought-provoking: Kevin Kelly making the points that a) the web is only 5000 days old, and who knows what will happen in the next 5000; and b) the number of transistors currently linking online has reached about the same number as the neurons in a human brain. Transcendence, here we come? Udhay [1] http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
