John Smart is Founder and President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. His late-night talk from Accelerating Change 2004, Simulation, Agents, and Accelerating Change: Personality Capture and the Linguistic User Interface, is up for free audio download at IT Conversations.
It's a must-hear for anyone interested in the deep direction of world systems and their social, technological, and business implications. Glad to work with you, John, and very happy to see your many original contributions and bold, critical synthesis getting out there (now finish writing your book! :-)
From the abstract (which doesn't do justice to the range and depth of the talk which explores many facets of accelerating change, developmental evolution, human experience, and coming technological emergences):
"One of the most important accelerating transitions occuring today is the emergence of the Linguistic User Interface or LUI. What will Windows (and the Google Browser) of 2015 look like? It seems clear that it will include sophisticated software simulations of human beings as part of the interface. First-world culture today spends more on video games than movies. These "interactive motion picture" technologies are more compelling and educating, particularly to our youth, the fastest-learning segment of society, than any linear scripts, no matter how professionally produced."
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