The Speculist

This Week 08/18/03

Had a blast at the Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash on Saturday. It was great seeing the faces behind Liquid Courage, TalkLeft, RessurectionSong, RoverPundit, The Blog of the Century of the Week, Walter in Denver, Conclusive Evidence: of Dave Cullen Having Existed, The Worldwide Rant, Protein Wisdom (if this guy is a Rocky Mountain blogger, how come his Coming Soon notice is all about Cincinatti? am I too literal-minded or what?), and others, I know I'm leaving a few out — sorry! A couple of FastForward Posse members also put in a guest appearance to kind of round out the evening. It was great!

Speaking of the Posse, we'll be introducing some new members this week so watch TTT and FastForward. Plus we're still looking for new Posse members, and joining up has never been easier.

This week:

Monday
Time Traveler's Toolkit. Having explained what a Speculist is and having defined Practical Time Travel, we spend some time talking about who the future belongs to, and what the future looks like (and what we can do with it) from various points of view.

Tuesday
The FastForward Posse takes a look at jacking in, wearing computers, and basically living in logged-on-all-the-time world. Some good stuff!

Wednesday
We'll be Speaking of the Future with Christine Peterson, President and co-founder (along with Eric Drexler) of the Foresight Institute. Christine will weigh in on the Great Assembler Debate, misconceptions about nanotechnology, and provide an answer to the question that's been eating away at many of us: will we all soon have tiny robots in our pants?

Thursday
Stillness, Chapter 3. Reuben and Ksenia go on a date. There may be some kissing. Okay, there definitely will be some kissing. But if you don't like that sort of thing, don't worry, it's only right at the end. (Maybe I'm giving too much away?) There's also some hand-holding earlier than that. But if hand-holding bothers you, maybe you're not quite ready for grown-up stories, hmm? Or maybe hand-holding bothers you because you don't like all this sissified lovey-kissy stuff. If that's your problem, all I can tell you is...hang on. Next week, in Chapter 4, things are going to take a really ugly turn. (Okay, now I'm definitely giving too much away.)

Friday
Christine Peterson will answer Seven Questions About the Future.

Saturday
Future Round-up. All of the In the Future... predictions for this week brought together in one handy list. I'll probably do six this week, since I only did four last week and I want to get the average back up to five per week.

Plus, throughout the week we'll be blogging developments in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and other future-impacting areas.

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