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The moment Jaron Lanier takes the stage at the solidly packed Actors’ Gang Theater, even those unfamiliar with his work sense that he’s the real deal — a Bay Area–based computer wizard/philosophical thinker/experimental musician with decades-long influence on cultural, political and economic movers and shakers…
Click here for the entire article LA Weekly website.
Also, I have just discovered that the book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” by Jaron Lanier is one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for January 2010.
Click here for more information on both the book “You Are Not a Gadget” and Jaron Lanier.
“Class Size Increased 200% to Accommodate Growing Interest to Address “Humanity’s Grand Challenges” Through Scientific, Technological Collaboration and Innovation; Interested Candidates Must Submit Applications On or Before March 15, 2010″
Click here to view the entire press release. You may have to scroll down a bit to see it.
Click here to access the Singularity University website.
I just completed reading this interesting, insightful and thought provoking book. I highly recommend it.
As you read it, watch for and keep in mind the underlying innovations and technological advances that are driving forces pushing us towards increasing globalization and “The Post-American World” described by Fareed Zakaria. Fareed provides significant historical perspective as he guides us through what he sees.
There are many reviews of this book on Amazon.com plus an interesting conversation that takes place between Fareed Zakaria and Thomas Friedman, the author of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America”.
Click here for the additional information found on Amazon.com.
This article was prompted in part by an August 2008 cover story in the Atlantic Monthly by technology writer Nicholas Carr headlined: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
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Click here for more information from Nicholas Carr.
Here’s a list of articles that have recently caught my attention on the subject of life extension. I have posted them on my Blogging Life Extension website.
Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General,” from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, “The Pirates of Penzance.”
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Chris Williamson: Filmmaker, science enthusiast, and futurist concerned with the accelerating nature of technological growth and where it's headed. He is currently studying for his MFA in Film Production.
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