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POPSA History of Intellectual Discussion of 'Accelerating Change' Accelerating information and communication technologies have today become the most dynamic systems in modern society. Faced with the daunting prospect of further acceleration in their capacity, most people presently either deny the possibility, or ignore the phenomenon entirely. Futurists and Transhumanists believe that the evidence is strongly against the first response, and that the second response is unwise. Learning about accelerating change and grasping the concept from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective is the most pressing challenge of today. Here's an excellent article from http://www.accelerationwatch.com/history_brief.html that accumulates some of the most incisive thoughts on these topics from a range of careful future thinkers, and to provide a number of synthetic interpretations, including one, the developmental Singularity hypothesis
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POPSSingularity Will Be a Global Phenomenon As I scour the web for news relating to it, I find that the singularity is being pursued from points all across the globe. Research is being done in many countries, in the fields of AI, nanotechnology, robotics, computer technology and life-extension, in many cases ahead of domestic research. What are the implications of the global reach of all this research and development? One implication is that the singularity seems to be more inevitable than ever. There is no single, regulated and controlled center of operations that can be scaled back or even slowed down. The pace of research is being driven faster and faster by an organic and chaotic momentum that will very probably lead to strong AI and radical life-extension far sooner than most people could imagine.
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POPSThe Ray Kurzweil Reader One of the best of the best futurism resources on net. anyone wanna know the future? read Kurzweil! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
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POPSEdge.org - The 3rd Culture The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
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POPSThe reality and components of the *Spike* / *Singularity* / Crisis There seems to be a general expectation among people who think about the future that we are heading into a critical period in human history. A significant number of factors seem to be heading away from what we might consider ‘norms’ we know how to manage and into areas we have trouble predicting and in some cases raising reasonable fears we may not be able to handle them. What seems to be lacking is a strong consensus on what the most important factors are.
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POPSWhy the next 50-100 years are the most critical in history Humanity is entering a critical phase. It is a phase of history from which we probably have a less than even chance of surviving and the only exit states for say 2100-2200 are extinction or a thriving type one civilization that is expanding into the solar system.
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