The next FastForward will be Friday, Sept. 12. If you've been enviously tracking the exploits of some of our more prominent FastForward Posse members and wondering if there isn't some way you, too, can be a part — well, this here is your big chance.
To join the Posse, just contribute something to FastForward. (Here's the first one we did; here's the second one; here's the one we did last week about Mars.)
Feed me links, pictures, jokes, and above all your speculations and ruminations (50 words or less would be great). I'll need all submissions by noon mountain time on Friday, Sept. 12.
The topic will be artifical intelligence, the coming age of thinking machines. What will developments in this field mean to us? Will we get something like the social prostheses I wrote about earlier this week? Will our cars drive themselves? Especially our flying cars?
And what will our relationship with AI's be? Will they just be annoying? Will we best friends with software? Will some loser try to marry his PDA?
And what about this Technological Singularity thing? Will the AIs give us a paradise on Earth, keep us in little cages like pets, or eliminate all carbon-based life-forms as we would mildew in the shower?
I can't wait to find out what you think about it.
Send your submissions to The Speculist.
Posted by Phil at September 6, 2003 09:25 AM | TrackBack