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2003 Panel
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Saturday June 28, 2003
12:30-1:20pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall,
62 High St., New Haven CT
Lunch Event
John Smart
President Institute for Accelerating Change
"Development after De Chardin: The Accelerating Transhumanist
Frontier"
Will accelerating change ever slow down? What
cosmological, computational, information theoretic, or systems theory
interpretations have been proposed for this phenomenon? We'll explore the
latest literature and informed speculations on these topics, and consider
what increasingly autocatalytic technological change might mean to
transhumanists, futurists, and singularity-unaware society in coming
years.
John Smart is chairman of the Institute for Accelerating
Change, a nonprofit community of 1,200 academics, futurists, and lay
scholars dedicated to data-driven analysis, informed speculation, and
agendas for action in the understanding and management of accelerating
change. He is organizing the world's first conference on these fascinating
topics, the Accelerating Change Conference 2003, Sept. 12-14 at Stanford
University. John has a B.S. in Business from Berkeley and seven years of
biological, cognitive, computer and physical science at UCLA, Berkeley,
and UC San Diego. He is currently completing the M.S. in Future Studies at
the University of Houston, and writing his second book, Destiny of
Species, on the coming technological singularity.
