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Date and Time: Friday, July 06, 2007, 7:00 PM
Location: eon fathom Apartment Clubhouse
Title: Pizza Night and "What comes first: AI, uploading, molecular assemblers, or human biological augmentation?"
Hosts: eon fathom, Richard Leis, Jr.
Description: Many futurists have strong ideas about which technologies will lead to the greatest changes, which will lead to something like a Technological Singularity, and which will come first. H+ club members also have their own ideas. We plan to answer these questions by inviting everyone to come up with a short, 3 - 10 minute presentation on "What comes first: AI, uploading, molecular assemblers, or human biological augmentation?"

Pizza and watermelon will be served. Please bring drinks and other snacks.

Please contact me through h+ on Facebook if you need more information or directions.

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Presentations

• [PowerPoint] The Great Vanishing by Richard Leis, Jr.

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Location: Room 2919 at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell | map
Title: "1957, 2007, and the Discovery Channel's 2057"
Presenter: Richard Leis, HiRISE Operations Specialist, h+ Adviser
Presentation Description: On Sunday, January 28, 2007, the Discovery Channel presented 2057¹, a documentary/drama that asked "What would you see and experience if the clocks rolled forward 50 years?"² Their answer? A time that mirrors the issues of our own era, where problems are solved by deus ex machina, and convergence is superficial at best.

Are the quaint predictions of the future from the 1950's and the populist scenarios in 2057 the best we can do? Are transhumanist thinkers any better? I will examine past predictions and present reality, review 2057, and attempt to build a framework for prediction independent of contemporary biases.

Notes:

1. 2057; - http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/2057/2057.html
2. 2057 - About the Show - http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/2057/about/about.html

Presentations

• [PowerPoint] 1957, 2007, and the Discovery Channel’s 2057 by Richard Leis, Jr.