The Future of Technology

Roundtable discussion featuring Esther Dyson, David Kirkpatrick, Jaron Lanier, Bernie Meyerson, and Ken Perlin.

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Education

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• philoctetes
• roundtable
• jaron
• lanier
• david
• kirkpatrick
• technology
• future
• internet
• cyberspace
• virtual
• reality

[DaStefanP]

comment on whether Internet fraud is punishable,, YES or at least it should be. here is why, recently a 21 year old 'coach' of a soccer team in my area was caught pretending to be a young girl age 16, asking young boys from his team to expose themselves in front of the web cam.. needless to say, he got thrown in jail, should that woman who pretended to be a boy and had mail love with a girl in neighborhood be thrown in jail, coz the girl killed herself? well at least be forced to go to a psych

[Zurround100]

major letdown i wanted talk about SPACE TRAVEL, cities on mars stuff like that but this was almost entirely internet stuff.

[DiamondAbilityBoy]

OMG 2 HOURS

[toujourslouer]

do you suppose we will become more global only to become more involved with those immediately proximate?

[rofthorax]

Isn't it ironic that large corporations move to countries to manufacture goods, where people have so few freedoms and limited access to communication media like the Internet. If everyone in the world was as well connected as americans, would they be as productive as they are now. And would corporations even be possible?

[rofthorax]

Just think of how much gas is lost to people driving miles to buy a product from the closest store only to find their neighbor will sell a similar product to them, possibly at a lower price. I think these technologies won't be developed commercially, but only through open source and as people begin to realize the need. In a commercial mindset, innovation is avoided because it can bite back. So such solutions must come from a philanthropic community which is where innovation really comes from.

[rofthorax]

What affects the future greatly? The dissemination and the collection and interpretation of knowledge and experience. Thus the education of others and ones own self education through experience, determines the future. But also so does the serendipity of discovery due to life and the effect of physical and medical disturbances.

Thus predicting the future makes for stupid, interesting and pointless discussions that fill time and get people to sit in circles causing them to sleep or get exicited.

[rofthorax]

The future is determined by death, life, and geological, atmospherical an cosmic, dramatic, social, (etc..) disturbances. The future is determined by interactions between individuals..

Predicting the future precisely is impossible, of course, but can be determined by looking at the past, considering human behaviour, and the limitations of the known universe, of knowledge and computation given the duration of ones life and the time one can power a computer.

[rofthorax]

How is ray-tracing like the progression of technology.

Knowledge propagates outward, and with each person it touches, it's lighted and perturbed according to that's persons influence. The future is determined by how knowledge is dissiminated and the light of ideas derived from experiences and knowledge.

The closest we can get to predicting the future is to ask people who have experience in the past. What they say, however has some small effect on the future, but the future is complex.

[rofthorax]

Jaron Lanier is that hippy from MIT, that got popular around the time of the whole Virtual Reality hoopla in the 90s, and talked about snow crash, right?

Ken Perling worked on Tron, and created the Perlin Noise texture, as well as researched behavioral animation as that used in Valve's games like Half Life 2.

Okay yes, I just searched for Ken Perlin and found this after doing a little blender tutorial..