“In Three Years”

March 16th, 2008 by Richard Leis, Jr.

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March 22, 2008 Meeting - In Three Years

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"In Three Years"

Date and Time: Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM Arizona Time

Location: Skysong - Innovation, Room 241 - SE Corner of Scottsdale Rd and McDowell, Scottsdale, AZ 85257, USA | Google Maps


Description:

Open discussion.

A question I would like to discuss: What will the year 2011 bring? Only three years away, a variety of trends suggest a world in technological transition between the physical world of consumer electronic devices and the internal world of technology integrated into the human body. Though not a fully cybernetic time, by 2011 technology on the macroscale will begin to give way to technology on the micro- and nanoscales.

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3 Responses to ““In Three Years””

  1. Mark Plus Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    I don’t understand the premise of your topic. Why should the next three years make any more difference than the previous 30? Thirty years ago some “futurists” thought that by now we would have become immortal and live in space colonies. (See, for example, F.M. Esfandiary’s vision published back in 1981 about life in that far off, mysterious year 2010, titled “Up-Wing Prioriities”: http://www.box.net/shared/static/ay9lub60ha.pdf . ) If 30 years have really gotten us nowhere towards those goals, what could possibly happen in the next three that would dramatically change our lives?

  2. richardleisjr Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    I’m interested in trends in consumer electronics and cybernetics by 2011 and what these trends suggest about the decade as a whole. My presentation will be up on Sunday for review.

  3. Jim Ledford Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Richard
    Sorry I missed the March meeting. I put a shortcut to this website on my desktop so that I will remember to check for updates.

    Mark,

    “If 30 years have really gotten us nowhere towards those goals, what could possibly happen in the next three that would dramatically change our lives?”

    You must not be checking the news and RRS feeds on technology. Technologies are converging fast.

    Jim

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