Accelerating Change Conference
The 2004 Accelerating Change Conference focused much more on current changes than last year’s attempts at providing long-term visions led me to expect. The one topic that excited me was a virtual...
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I was somewhat disappointed by the latest Accelerating Change Conference, which might have been great for people who have never been to that kind of conference before, but didn’t manage enough novelty...
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Book review: Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games by Edward Castronova Castranova is one of the first intellectuals to notice the importance of new societies that are being...
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Book review: The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth, by Robin Hanson. This book analyzes a possible future era when software emulations of humans (ems) dominate the world...
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