Seminars About Long Term Thinking: Vernor Vinge February 15, 2007
San Francisco, California 94123
$10.00 donation at the door
Not much information is currently available.
Official Website: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
Added by urban_mermaid on January 7, 2007
Comments
tantek
And speaking of (slightly) longer term thinking, where's the afterparty for discussions, debates, wild predictions and prognostications?
urban_mermaid
is this a prompt to get me to host? let me ponder a locale nearby to the marina.
tantek
In case there is wifi, and for discussion before/afterwards, backchannel: irc://irc.freenode.net#singularity
tantek
Do you think we can convince the hosts to let us in for free if we come dressed as the singularity? With mirrorshades natch.
srhodes
The $10 is just a suggested donation.
You can get in free even without mirrorshades.
They also post the talks and Stewart Brand emails out detailed notes if anyone can't make (there are so many things happening Thurs).
martinbogo
Should be interesting to see what he has to say now. The Long Now foundation is pretty much the anti-singularity, urging people to do things on scales much longer than a single generation.
tantek
@srhodes, very good. we'll see if they take credit polymer crystals, if not, grumble something about primitive paper currency and shrug.
@martinbogo, The Singularity laughs in the general direction of The Long Now.
disrupsean
The Vasectomy hurls feces at The Singularity.
tantek
The Singularity thanks the Vasectomy for the extra material resources and promptly disassembles them into atomic components for reassembly when needed.
disrupsean
now you're being silly.
lhl
how was this? any good?
urban_mermaid
From the website:
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
Technology acceleration is like what happens approaching the singularity in the center of a black hole - everything is transformed utterly and unpredictably. That metaphor was invented by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge in 1980's and has entered standard usage as a way of thinking about the near future. In this talk Vinge challenges his own idea, investigating scenarios of "a human-scaled world with long time horizons," and how that might play out over ten or twenty thousand years.