Got my Wired Magazine today and surprise, page 102 Bruce Sterling is opening up his column with the AC2004: The Evolution Will BE Mechanized The rate of technological change is dizzying, and it's only getting faster. In September [It's moved to November 5-7th, I guess he didn't get the memo :-) ] at Stanford, the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change is acknowledging the trend with its second annual Accelerating Change conference.
Update: Eric Nehrlich found the link to the column. Thanks.
Sweet. He does a nice job of introducing the technological singularity, cautions about super humans, check out the bios of real live geniuses, and you may reconsider your goals.
I am bummed that this time he didn't introduced the word Technobesity for the glut of technological advances never properly absorbed, which in part describes our spam choked Internet.
He closes with a good call:
And no Moore's law rising majestically on any 2-D graph is ever going make us magnificent or spiritual when we lack the will, vision, and appetite for spiritual magnificence.
Hmm, but what exactly is spiritual magnificence? For me part of the attraction of AC2004 is to work on/out that vision. May be he can share his with us. We invited him to talk, but are not sure if it fits into his busy schedule.
Get the magazine for the rest of the column it's great.
By the way the cover story New American Idol is about changing politics which fits nicely into our September Future Salon is available online already. More about that later.
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