Fri, 03 Jun 2005
More impending signs of the rapture of the nerds
Just as I was poking around with my arms up to the elbows in the
guts of a small web publishing system I'm bolting together for
"Accelerando", I had to stumble across Acceleration
Watch -- a web clearinghouse for futurists trying to
understand and manage accelerating change.
I thought I was writing a novel, not a goddamn documentary!
Seriously,
Acceleration
Watch is full of good stuff. "As Historian J.D. Bury reminds
us (The Idea of Progress, 1920), the idea of progress in any
human domain other than spiritual (e.g., social, intellectual,
technical), versus stasis, moral decline, or cyclic fluctuation,
has been a quite recent emergence in human history." And
PowerPoint slides on the nature of post-singularity economics. Oh
my, I wish I'd had this around back in 1999!
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