<div>Dear friends,</div>  <div> </div>  <div>     A quick review from KurzweilAI.net:</div>  <div> </div>  <div><A href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D5843">http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D5843</A></div>  <div> </div>  <div>     Transhumanistically yours,</div>  <div> </div>  <div>     La vie est belle!</div>  <div> </div>  <div>     Yosé</div>  <div> </div>  <div>========================================</div>  <div> </div>  <div>  <TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=5 width="100%" bgColor=#cccccc border=0>  <TBODY>  <TR>  <TD bgColor=#cccccc>  <div><SPAN class=title>The Millennium Project's 2006 State of the Future published</SPAN></div></TD></TR>  <TR>  <TD bgColor=#eeeeee>  <div>KurzweilAI.net, August 21, 2006<BR>  <div>The Millennium Project--a global participatory think
 tank--has released its <A href="http://www.acunu.org/millennium/sof2006.html" target=_blank>10th annual State of the Future report</A>. <BR><BR>The report distills the collective <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Intelligence')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Intelligence')">intelligence</A> of over 2,000 leading scientists, <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Futurist')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Futurist')">futurist</A>s, scholars, and policy advisors who work for <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Government')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Government')">government</A>s, corporations, non-<A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Government')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Government')">government</A>al organizations, universities, and international organizations. <BR><BR>Among its findings: <BR><BR>  <LI>Dramatic increases in collective <A class=thought
 onmouseover="playBrain('Human')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Human')">human</A>-<A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Machine')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Machine')">machine</A> <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Intelligence')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Intelligence')">intelligence</A> are possible within 25 years. It is also possible that within the same <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Time')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Time')">time</A> frame single <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Individual')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Individual')">individual</A>s acting alone might create and use weapons of mass destruction. <BR><BR>  <LI>Just as <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Computer')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Computer')">computer</A> <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Code')"
 onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Code')">code</A> is written to create many kinds of <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Software')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Software')">software</A>, genetic <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Code')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Code')">code</A> will be written to create many varieties of <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Life')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Life')">life</A>, including those that make <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Hydrogen')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Hydrogen')">hydrogen</A> from plants. <BR><BR>  <LI>25 million are likely to die if avian flu mutates for <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Human')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Human')">human</A>-to-<A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Human')" onmouseout=stopBrain()
 href="javascript:loadBrain('Human')">human</A> transmission. <BR><BR>The 2006 State of the <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Future')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Future')">Future</A> comes in two parts: a 125-page print executive summary and a 5,400-page CD. The CD contains all the <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Research')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Research')">research</A> behind the print edition, plus the Millennium Project's 10 years of cumulative <A class=thought onmouseover="playBrain('Research')" onmouseout=stopBrain() href="javascript:loadBrain('Research')">research</A> and methods.   <div></div>  <div></div></LI></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></div><BR><BR><DIV>
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<P>La vie est belle!<BR><BR>Yosé (<A href="http://www.cordeiro.org">www.cordeiro.org</A>)</P>
<P>Caracas, Venezuela, Americas, TerraNostra, Solar System, Milky Way, Multiverse</P></DIV></DIV>