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data and tools | Trancik Lab
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We have made the following datasets and tools available to the public. Data on coal-fired electricity. Cite: McNerney J, Farmer JD, Trancik JE, Historical Costs of Coal-Fired Electricity and Implications for the Future, Energy Policy, 2011, Vol. 39, pp. 3042-3054. Database on performance curves. Cite: Nagy B, Farmer JD, Bui QM, Trancik JE, Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress, PLoS One, 2013, Vol. 8, e52669. Greenhouse gas equivalency metrics tool. Tool at carboncounter.com.
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Andart: A singular event
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Another lobe of Anders Sandberg's distributed brain: essays on technology, science and the human condition. Bad science and policy ». October 08, 2009. Just back from the Singularity Summit. And subsequent workshop. I am glad to say it exceeded my expectations - the conference had a intensity and concentration of interesting people I have rarely seen in a general conference. Presented more on the case for why we should go for it, and in an earlier meeting Kenneth Hayworth. Several of the AGI people were ...
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John M. Smart – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. The Transporter Test and the Three Camps of Brain Preservation (Life Suspension). June 22, 2016. By John M. Smart. Reanimators, Uploaders & Uncertains Which Are You? Take the Test, and Find Out Where You Stand on the “Copy Problem”. The first in a multi-author series, with Michael Cerullo, M.D., and Keith Wiley, Ph.D., on life suspension technologies, options, and policy. Our article is here, on Medium.
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Foresight Masters – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. Are you interested in getting a formal foresight education? Strategic foresight is a great new field, with lots of opportunities and challenges. See FERN’s global list of foresight certificate programs. See FERN’s global list of foresight graduate programs. In 2007 I graduated from the U. Houston master’s program ( MT in Studies of the Future. And the Foresight Education and Research Network (FERN).
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Comments Etiquette – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. Your comment likely won’t get on the blog if it isn’t these things, in my imperfect judgment. Shorter and more targeted posts are also better for getting responses. Let’s try to practice Buddhist right speech. No false, divisive, or abusive speech, or idle chatter) and strive for Bohm dialog. The physicist David Bohm. Wrote a neat little book,. John M. Smart and Friends. An acceleration-, evolution-, and...
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About – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. Is the personal blog of futurist John M. Smart. It covers the story of accelerating technological change. The most powerful and important story of our time, taking a big picture view of the future, asking who we are, where we are going, and what might be better and worse ways to get there. See also John’s Medium posts. Consider any of these for your personal library:. Diamandis and Kotler (2012). As thes...
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Saving Interstellar: A Mental Rewrite of Chris Nolan’s Latest Masterpiece – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. Saving Interstellar: A Mental Rewrite of Chris Nolan’s Latest Masterpiece. November 7, 2014. By John M. Smart. Friends who know my work as a systems theorist, including my speculations about the evolutionary developmental (evo devo) nature of our universe. And the potential attraction of universal intelligence to black hole-like environments (the developmental singularity or transcension hypothesis.
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The Transcension Hypothesis: Do Advanced Civilizations Leave Our Universe? – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. The Transcension Hypothesis: Do Advanced Civilizations Leave Our Universe? November 3, 2011. By John M. Smart. Low-mass X-ray binary (LMXRB) star system. Strange as it seems, Earth’s future may look something like this, with us inside a black hole of our own creation, on a highly accelerated path to merging with other universal civilizations doing the same. If true, our destiny is density! By rebuilding ...
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All Posts – Ever Smarter World
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Foresight, Tools, and Strategies for a World of Accelerating Change. Foresight, Innovation, Strategy. 1-Science, Complexity, Systems Philosophy. 2-Engineering, Energy, and Nanotech. 3-Infotech, Nets, Automation, Mach. Intell. 4-Socialtech, Semantic Web and Coll. Intell. 5-Cognotech, Neuropsych, and Indiv. Intell. 6-Biotech, Medicine, Health and Longevity. 7-Environment, Sustainability and Resources. 8-Economics, Biz-Law, Invest., Capitalism. 9-Politics, Security, Policy, Democracy. John M. Smart. Leaders...
