<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/innovations-list/309536/" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/innovations-list/309536/:</a>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:23.1875px;text-transform:none;font-size:16px;white-space:normal;font-family:Georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;word-spacing:0px">In short, these scientists and
creative types decided to answer the question they wanted us to
ask, rather than the exact one we posed. We have new sympathy
for people attempting to manage universities and R&D labs.<span> </span></span></blockquote>
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Amen. Never try to give a survey to academics!<br>
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Nice discussion, more relevant than the list itself.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Absolutely!<br><br></div><div>Worth reading, also, for enriched historical context for current discussion of rates (and significance) of technological change.<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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