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- From: Mark Bruemmer <tegmarkb@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: The Brains In Spain...
Date: 08/22/2003
To: The Entrepreneurial Group Subscriber
(theentrepreneurialgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
From: Mark Bruemmer, CEO
NetMotifs, Inc. and
Moderator of The Entrepreneurial Group
(tegmarkb@xxxxxxxxx)
Dear Entrepreneur,
Have you ever wondered what smart people
think about? If you gathered them together
what might they discuss? What vision of the
future would they share and how is it
influenced by technology?
As an entrepreneur interested in technology
trends, where is there a forum to learn what
the Digerati, including business leaders,
entrepreneurs, technologists, scientists,
academicians, authors and journalists,
commentators, futurists and others, are
musing, researching and applying?
Here's an organization that answers these
questions and may pique your interest.
"The Technology Transfer Institute/Vanguard
is a unique forum for the introduction,
discussion and evaluation of emerging and
breakthrough information technologies.
Through conferences and workshops, experts
offer perspectives from managerial, business,
scientific, and sociological disciplines. The
result is a framework for linking strategic
technology planning to business success.
Vanguard believes that the smartest
organizations are ahead of the curve when it
comes to leveraging leading edge technologies
for competitive gain. As new technologies
continue to define the global information
economy, Vanguard offers an effective way to
make sense of it all!"
"Organizations join Vanguard:
For the power of our network.
For early warnings regarding breakthrough
technologies.
To explore the future's technological
revolution and its business impacts.
To match the convergence of these
technologies with marketplace and
customer/client needs."
Vanguard holds five conferences annually
convening at various locations worldwide.
On July 21st and 22nd 2003 the group met in
Spain to explore the "next wave of strategic
computing, grounded in biology" on the topic
"Where Life Meets Technology".
Here's an excerpt from the conference
overview.
"The IT world has been able to cope with
"technological advancement" because its
progress has been built upon sciences and
architectures that were well understood. But
the next wave of strategic computing -
grounded in biology - breaks this pattern.
The introduction of organic components
creates possibilities that can't be imagined
within an information infrastructure based on
electronics alone.
The notion of "hybrid" bio-electronic devices
and applications will become commonplace,
leveraging the high-speed and low cost of
silicon technologies with the unique
capabilities of bio-chemical and biophysical
components. Biomechanical sensors in
particular will have a huge impact.
Advances may lead us to become the first
generation of humans to radically engineer
new life forms. Research into organic life
forms, including plants, animals and
bacteria, will have implications for
industries as diverse as energy,
manufacturing, agriculture, waste disposal,
chemicals and food. Our notions of security
might change as well as developments create
new biometric and even cryptographic
opportunities. We're starting to harness our
understanding of how cells work to bring us
closer to the creation of "thinking"
machines. The same understanding is enabling
us to control the natural disadvantages of
human engineering. As science fiction is
becoming fact, there will soon be a little
cyborg in all of us. Digital taps will open a
flood of new personal data. Who will own,
manage, and maintain it?
None of this would be happening without
pervasive computing, advances in
miniaturization, and the integration of
biology, physiology, chemistry, and
computing. The business opportunities around
these new life systems are vast, but the
consequences for us as a species are far
greater.
Topics include:
Brain-machine interfaces
Biometrics
Mimicking life
Advanced robotics
Brain malleability
Autonomous Bio-MEMS
Reactive modeling
Mirroring intelligence"
To learn more about Technology Transfer
Institute/Vanguard visit this link.
http://www.ttivanguard.com
Mingling with the Digerati is not
inexpensive. A few years ago I called this
prestigious organization and was politely
informed that a $50,000 fee should accompany
my membership application.
"At the core of Vanguard is a world-class
Advisory Board, which contributes to meetings
with a rare blend of futuristic vision
grounded in technological reality. This
elite group, in combination with
world-renowned speakers invited to each
session, comprises a powerful intellectual
network uniquely available to Vanguard
members."
- Leonard Kleinrock, Chairman, TTI/Vanguard
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