<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Here are some names:<br><br>Paul Saffo<br>Malcom Gladwell (The Tipping Point)<br>Steven D. Levitt & Stephan J. Dubner (Freakonomics)<br>Wil McCarthy (Hacking Matter)<br><br>and the ever esteemed Damien Broderick<br><br>Linda<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, January 24, 2014 10:08 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Robin D Hanson <<a
ymailto="mailto:rhanson@gmu.edu" href="mailto:rhanson@gmu.edu">rhanson@gmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I'm talking about the kind of futurists mentioned here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_studies" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_studies</a><br>> The kind that publish in the journals listed there. The Singularity Institute isn't part of that.<br><br>The list is a really mixed bag, and, among other things, it is missing<br>Eric Drexler. I might fix that and include Charles Stross as well.<br>Who else should go on that list?<br><br>A list that includes Ray Kurzweill and the Club of Rome would be hard<br>to exceed in discordant views of the future.<br><br>I find it hard to take futurists seriously who are not on the bleeding<br>edge of technology, but even those can be blind to the obvious.<br><br>Or as Yogi Berra, said "It's tough to make predictions, especially<br>about the
future."<br><br>Keith<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>