Accelerating Change Conference 2003

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Accelerating Change Conference
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Exploring the Future of Accelerating Change

What: Accelerating Change Conference (ACC2003)
The world's first multidisciplinary conference on science,
technology, business, & humanist issues in accelerating change.
Where: Tressider Union at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
When: September 12 - 14, 2003 (Fri-Sun)
Who: Business professionals, civic leaders, humanists, investors,
journalists, philosophers, scholars, scientists, students,
technologists, writers, and many others
Cost: $395 ($295 before July 28), Student $150/$100, Virtual $99
Web: http://www.accelerating.org

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What will the world be like if Moore's Law (the exponential growth in
computing power) holds for another 30 years?

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ACC2003 Presentations, Debates & Discussions (partial list)*
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KEYNOTES
Ray Kurzweil (via Teleportec's 3D holography): "The Singularity is Near:
Multifold Trends in Accelerating Change"
James N. Gardner: "The Selfish Biocosm Hypothesis"
Steve Jurvetson (DFJ): "Venture Capital in a World of Accelerating Change"

PLENARIES
Howard Bloom (video and teleconference Q&A): "'An Infinity of Singularities:
From Big Bang to the 23rd Century'"
Robert Wright: "Technology and Interdependence: Nonzero Sumness as the Arc
of History"

DEBATES
Ray Kurzweil & Michael Denton: "Evaluating Kurzweil's 'Law of Accelerating
Returns'"
James N. Gardner, William A. Dembski, and Nick Bostrom: "An Anthropic
Universe: Replication, 'Intelligent Design,' or Ensemble?"

BREAKOUTS
William H. Calvin: "Social Symbiosis, Stability, & Foresight"
James H. Crawford (NASA): "Autonomy, Robotics, & World-Modeling"
Matt Dennig (Nuance): "The Linguistic User Interface"
Keith Devlin (CSLI): "Interface, Information, Communication"
K. Eric Drexler (Foresight): "Nanotechnology & Nanoscience"
Ben Goertzel: "Artificial General Intelligence"
Scott A. Hunt: "Accelerating Change & World Peace"
Ross Mayfield (Socialtext): "Social Software Solutions"
John R. Koza (Genetic Programming): "Biologically Inspired Computing"
Paul H. Ray: "Values and Consciousness Trends"
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly & Assoc.): "Diffusion of New Memes in the Media"
Greg Papadopoulos (Sun): "Network Entropy: A Driver of Change"
John Smart: "Development & the Singularity: Understanding Accelerating
Change"

*Some sessions will occur simultaneously. For details, see the ACC2003
schedule: http://www.accelerating.org

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For More Information
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* Conference overview & schedule
* Full list of speakers with bios
* Sponsorship opportunities
* And much more!

Go to: http://www.accelerating.org

ACC2003 is a service of the Institute for Accelerating Change (IAC), a
501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Los Angeles. IAC's mission is to
help society explore the risks and benefits of the accelerating rate of
change through our conferences, publications, reading groups, websites, and
sense of community.

Please forward this email to your future-oriented, change-aware friends and
colleagues. Thank you!