Must know terms for today's intelligentsia

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3-3-2007 11:51 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e1926814-a578-420d-8508-47e2bfc017aa/B2E7BAFF-5996-44FB-8D95-BE6BD1524B48/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html" href="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html" style="font-size: 11px;">sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><H3 class="entry-header">Must know terms for today's intelligentsia</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><DIV><A href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/628911_8a81edcac3_m.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/628911_8a81edcac3_m.jpg" /></A>At the dawn of European humanism, Florentines believed that reading Dante while ignoring science was ridiculous. Similarly, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo both recognized the great importance of understanding science, technology and engineering.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><DIV>Despite these trail-blazers, not much has changed since then; a startling number of so-called 'intellectuals' remain grossly ignorant of pending technologies and the revealing sciences (the postmodernists immediately come to mind). Today's intelligentsia, in order to qualify for such a designation, must have the requisite vocabulary with which to address valid social concerns and effectively assess the future. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">accelerating change<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">artificial general intelligence<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">augmented reality<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">automation<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">cosmological eschatology<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">existential risks<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Fermi Paradox<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">friendly AI<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">human enhancement<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">human exceptionalism (aka human racism)<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">information theoretic death<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">memetic engineering<BR /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/12/must-know-terms-for-todays.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">mind transfer (aka 'uploading')<BR /></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2E7BAFF-5996-44FB-8D95-BE6BD1524B48/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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