[extropy-chat] KurzweilAI.net reviews the "State of the Future 2006"

[Jose Cordeiro]

Dear friends,
   
       A quick review from KurzweilAI.net:
   
  http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D5843
   
       Transhumanistically yours,
   
       La vie est belle!
   
       Yosé
   
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            The Millennium Project's 2006 State of the Future published
      KurzweilAI.net, August 21, 2006
  The Millennium Project--a global participatory think tank--has released its 10th annual State of the Future report. 

The report distills the collective intelligence of over 2,000 leading scientists, futurists, scholars, and policy advisors who work for governments, corporations, non-governmental organizations, universities, and international organizations. 

Among its findings: 

  
Dramatic increases in collective human-machine intelligence are possible within 25 years. It is also possible that within the same time frame single individuals acting alone might create and use weapons of mass destruction. 

  
Just as computer code is written to create many kinds of software, genetic code will be written to create many varieties of life, including those that make hydrogen from plants. 

  
25 million are likely to die if avian flu mutates for human-to-human transmission. 

The 2006 State of the Future comes in two parts: a 125-page print executive summary and a 5,400-page CD. The CD contains all the research behind the print edition, plus the Millennium Project's 10 years of cumulative research and methods.   
  




La vie est belle!

Yosé (www.cordeiro.org)

Caracas, Venezuela, Americas, TerraNostra, Solar System, Milky Way, Multiverse


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