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[Stephen Guerin]

Awesome article, Steven. Congratulations!

-S

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Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Subject: Hacking the President's DNA—New Article
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Hacking the President's DNA, a very scary look at our very near future.

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[Bin Hu]

Thanks for the article. It is really interesting, and somewhat relevant for future research directions.

Bin

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Stephen Guerin <[hidden email]> wrote:

Awesome article, Steven. Congratulations!

-S

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Subject: Hacking the President's DNA—New Article
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Hacking the President's DNA, a very scary look at our very near future.

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Some New Tales To Tell:

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The story examines the dawning of an era of personalized bio-weapons and the grave threat they pose to national security. 


Hacking the President's DNA


 

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[Steve Smith]

Ditto on the congratulations to Kotler!

I have some questions for the list (composed of a mixture of optimists and pessimists, all technophiles):

1. What do you think of Singularity University and the ideas presented in Kotler/Diamandis' book "Abundance"?
2. What do you think of the *apparent* abundance of Exponential Technologies in the world today?
3. Are Exponential Technologies an emergent phenomena of Technology (and Economic?) Networks?
   
4. If not a literal Singularity, is there a subcritical Technological Explosion underway?
5. Are there good existing models for understanding this phenomena?
6. What moderating factors might exist, limiting this explosion from being an effective singularity?
7. What are the likely intrinsic time scales in such models?
8. How might such technological networks couple with social networks?

Just to keep gnawing the Political Bone...   what is the influence of the Conservative (fiscal and social) vs the Progressive (social)?  Both are mixed bags of pro/anti science/engineering.   Stem Cells V GMO crops...   Creation V Evolution...  Fracking, Climate Manipulation, ... etc.

Is a new concept of ethics required in these times of outrageous growth/progress in technology?

- Steve

Awesome article, Steven. Congratulations!

-S

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Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Subject: Hacking the President's DNA—New Article
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Hacking the President's DNA


 

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[glen ep ropella]

Steve Smith wrote at 11/08/2012 10:37 AM:
> I have some questions for the list (composed of a mixture of optimists
> and pessimists, all technophiles):
>
> 1. What do you think of Singularity University and the ideas presented
>    in Kotler/Diamandis' book "Abundance"?

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[Victoria Hughes]

Fascinating. The future got here before we did.


On Nov 8, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> Awesome article, Steven. Congratulations!
>
> -S


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[Steve Smith]

>> I have some questions for the list (composed of a mixture of optimists
>> and pessimists, all technophiles):
>>
>> 1. What do you think of Singularity University and the ideas presented
>>     in Kotler/Diamandis' book "Abundance"?
> Will it Blend? iPad Mini vs Kindle Fire HD vs Nexus 7
> http://youtu.be/5MMmLQlrBws

My copy of Abundance did... but Singularity University is a bit larger,
has many abstract components, and includes a modest number of people,
some of whom are inordinately wealthy..  all things making it difficult
to even *try* to blend.




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[Russell Standish]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:37:31AM -0700, Steve Smith wrote:
> 4. If not a literal Singularity, is there a subcritical Technological
>    Explosion underway?

The Singularity is based on the technology growth curve becoming
hyperbolic (reaching inifnity in finite time), as opposed to
exponential (which requires infinite time). So yes, there is a
subcritical technological explosion underway. It won't become
hyperbolic until we solve the apparently hard problem of
creativity. Optimists predict this will happen as soon as 2020 -
personally, I think it might take a little longer, but would plug for
a value sometime this century.

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