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Two futurist reports
IEEE Spectrum: IEEE Fellows take a hard-nosed look at what technology is -and isn't- on the horizon . Report of a joint study by the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and IEEE Spectrum. The main arteries of science and technology over the next 50 years: "Computation and Bandwidth to Burn" involves the shift of computing power and network connectivity from scarcity to utter abundance; "Sensory Transformation" hints at what happens when, as Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, puts it, "things start to think"; "Lightweight Infrastructure" is precisely the opposite of the railways, fiber-optic networks, centralized power distribution, and other massively expensive and complicated projects of the 20th century; "Small World" is what happens when nanotechnology starts to get real and is integrated with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and biosystems; and finally, "Extending Biology" is what results when a broad array of technologies, from genetic engineering to bioinformatics, are applied to create new life forms and reshape existing ones.
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. Genetic code will be written to create many varieties of life, including those that make hydrogen from plants.
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