12.06.2005

if you want to know what the war was for find out what the victor took

- old saying I discovered in an old pamphlet from 1938 entitled Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam.

Edge - Edge Foundation, Inc., was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world.

The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.

Ray Kurzweil's Accelerated Intelligence - Raymond Kurzweil (February 12, 1948 - ) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic musical keyboards. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and technological singularity. Check out his book The Age of Spiritual Machines!

Woot - How strange. They sell one item per day at gross discounts. Interesting concept.

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