First listen
Windows by Pulsar from their '76 LP Strands Of Future
Quote Of The Day
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
***Albert Einstein***
Who needs science fiction?
Federal tech and science wonks the summer of 2002 went wild in a
400-page assessment of what nano, bio, info, and cogno might do
for humanity.
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, a joint
effort by the Commerce Department & the National Science Foundation,
looks forward to a new age in federal science procurement.
Consciously or not, the report echoes classic science fiction from
70 years ago at almost every turn.
Too bad the prose isn't as good.
The government's technology forecast ...
"The sciences have reached a watershed at which they must
unify if they are to continue to advance rapidly. Convergence
can initiate a new renaissance, embodying a holistic view of
technology based on transformative tools."
(Towards Unifying Science and Converging Technologies)
... echoes what authors imagined long ago.
"Nexialism is the science of joining the knowledge of one field
of learning with that of other fields. It provides techniques
for speeding up the process of absorbing knowledge and of using
effectively what has been learned."
(A. E. Van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, 1939)
The government's technology forecast ...
"New paradigms in communication (brain-to-brain, brain-machine-
brain, group interaction) could become reality in 10 to 20years.
Neuromorphic engineering will allow transmitting thoughts and
biosensor output from the human body to devices for signal
processing.
(Communication and Education,page 16)
... echoes what authors imagined long ago.
"Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?,-enquired- the
Assistant Predestinator. I hear the new one at the Alhambra is
first-rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say
it's marvelous. Every hair of the bear reproduced.
The most amazing tactual effects."
(Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932)
The government's technology forecast ...
"Warfighters [will have] the ability to control complex entities
by sending control actions prior to thoughts (cognition) being
fully formed. The intent is to take brain signals(nanotechnology)
and use them in a control strategy (information technology)
and then impart back into the brain the sensation of feedback
signals."
(Biotechnology & National Security, page 289)
... echoes what authors imagined long ago.
"The bare, compact cerebral matter was then immersed in a fluid
within an ether-tight cylinder of a metal mined in Yuggoth,
certain electrodes reaching through and connecting at will with
elaborate instruments capable of duplicating the three vital
faculties of sight, hearing, and speech."
(H.P.Lovecraft,The Whisperer in Darkness,Weird Tales,August 1931)
The government's technology forecast ...
"Highest priority was given to "The Human Cognome Project",
a multidisciplinary effort to understand the structure, functions,
and potential enhancement of the human mind. Other priority areas
were: personal sensory device interfaces, enriched community
through humanized technology, learning how to learn, and enhanced
tools for creativity."
(Expanding Human Cognition and Communication)
... echoes what authors imagined long ago.
"...he said, "I noticed that part of the technique is the so-
called sleep machine, which educates you while you sleep"
-he chuckled-."I remember one of my old professors pointing
out that you could learn all that is known about science in just
under a thousand years.That's one facet of it. We learned with
every sense, through our fingers, our ears, our eyes, and even
from smell and taste."
(A. E. Van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, 1939)
The government's technology forecast ...
"Sustaining human physical and mental abilities throughout the
life span would be facilitated by progress in neuroscience and
cellular biology at the nanoscale. An active and dignified life
could be possible far into a person's second century,due to the
convergence of technologies.
(The Human Body and Mind Throughout the Life Cycle, page 16)
... echoes what authors imagined long ago.
"And then he continued: Only a half-year ago I discovered a
principle that will be the means of utterly annihilating every
kind of disease germ. And only recently I turned over to others
the principles of a new toxin which stimulates the worn-out
protoplasmic life-cells."
(Henry Hasse, He Who Shrank, Amazing Stories, August 1936)
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