The Accelerating Change 2004 conference is happening this November at Stanford. This year's theme Physical Space, Virtual Space, and Interface, analyzes the intersection of three monumental trends:
Accelerating interconnectivity of the physical world
Increasing accuracy of the simulated world
Growing importance of the physical-virtual, human-machine interface.
Each of these alone is powerfully impacting society today. Together, they paint a truly transformative picture of the future.
Check out the the list of speakers and you will recognize some well known faces, especially for the ones who have been following the Future Salon for a while: There is Professor BJ Fogg from Stanford, Ross Mayfield CEO of Socialtext and Jaron Lanier who doesn't need an introduction. All of them have done excellent presentations at the Future Salon and I can't wait to hear their updates. When experts in their respective fields come together over a weekend like this, sparks fly, new connections are formed in the minds of the people as well as between the participants. It is always enlightening.
I have activated the categories on this Future Salon Blog and we will post more information about our speakers and the theme under the category: AC2004. Stay tuned and may be I even figure out where the category RSS/Atom feed is located that you can subscribe to.