Ray Kurzweil’s prediction for the next 30 years: “intimate merger between  biological intelligence and non-biological intelligence …. we have designs for every organ in the body to augment it ultimately replace it with systems that are thousands of times more capable”

Source: Podtech.net

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Ray Kurzweil’s latest book:  The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“Why not a new version: Goldwater Democrats? By Goldwater Democrats, I mean old-style libertarian conservatives who actually believe in fiscal responsibility, small government, prudent foreign policy and live-and-let-live social policy. ”

Source: Andrew Sullivan

CIA recently held a workshop to to understand how to use wikis and blogs for data collection / analysis. Resource recommended: Calvin Andrus’ “The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community.”

Source: John Robb

(John was none too pleased he was not invited to the workshop as he had first proposed this in May 2004 )