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	<title>Thrivenotes &#187; future</title>
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	<description>On Extropy, the Technium, and Keeping One&#039;s Feet on Solid Ground.</description>
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		<title>Cory Doctorow: The War on General Purpose Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts to fight piracy and limit computer functionality converge on malware/spyware being pre-installed on every machine that ships. As an example, Intel has teamed up with video streaming services in the design of their new Sandy Bridge chips, which will supposedly allow for only DRM content to be streamed in HD. (Not that you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffering the Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only I could type it in a crisper way than this to spell out why I try and play a buffer-role and sit guessing at the aspirations, how to curb chance-machinations of our absurd, undeterred techno-globalization. This age for cheap is offering to keep open the gate the flood of infotainment acting less like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Possibility</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/open-possibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Karl Jaspers wrote: &#8220;The human being is an open possibility, incomplete and incompletable. Hence it is always more and other than what he has brought to realisation in himself.&#8221; Nevertheless, it is our responsibility to try imagining what that human being could be at the next stage of its history. p.234 &#8211; The Evolving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported—hanging high above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern. The body hung head down, attached to the underside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology needs a soul injection.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPENING STATEMENTS Technology needs a soul injection. Who&#8217;s gonna pay the price? Technology needs a soul installation. Who&#8217;s gonna pay with their life? If we&#8217;re gonna talk about planting chips into our brains, then first we&#8217;d really better talk about who&#8217;s using who&#8230; &#8217;cause to me it seems an awful lot like tech is using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +10: The Principles</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusten-a-transhumanist-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words of Max More are too well composed, too precise to emulate, so I have decided to provide a simple introduction and then let the rest speak for itself. The original, The Extropian Principles 3.o, is also to be found here on Max More&#8217;s own site. Introduction The term &#8216;transhumanist&#8217; comes with significant baggage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sagan&#8217;s Profound Words</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/sagan-profound-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A letter from RDO</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/a-letter-from-rdo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Divided Peoples of Our Human Galaxy, Two hundred centuries. For two hundred centuries you have tried to get it right. You swore me off. You would be fine by yourselves, you said. But now you must realize it as Trevize has that there are things you just cannot do on your own. And I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +8: Room to Expand</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropypluseight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Part and parcel of the what leads many to an Extropian mindset is the realization of scale, both in space and time. We’re allotted seventy to a hundred years of life compared to a fantastically large number of years that the Universe has been in existence. We live on a tiny little planet in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +7: Game Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Most complicated negotiations are predictable.&#8221; Bruce Bueno de Mesquito, CIA &#38; DOD Consultant/Game Theorist ~ Analog to Asimov&#8217;s Psychohistory realized in Game Theory-Based Computer Simulations with 90% success rate in predicting future political outcomes. This to me represents the pinnacle (or a pinnacle) of the outsourcing of information processing in order to supplement human intelligence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +4: Simulating Robot Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusfour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.&#8221; — Freeman Dyson]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 8%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/eight-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.&#8221; &#8211; Loren Eisley Water is a metaphor for both power and humility, bending around obstacles, seeking the path of least resistance. Water always seeks to lower itself below all else, flowing downhill to appease gravity. It this way it gains power from humility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more things change, the more they stay the same.&#8221; FUTURE-WISE As we saw in Minus One, the future can be a very shocking proposition when it is extrapolated far out enough. But we all have to deal with the day-to-day just like anyone else. This, I believe, is why stuff like the iPad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus One)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/future-shock-minus-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much info and too many wild concepts to consider. Let&#8217;s put it this way &#8212; To be able to hold this all in one&#8217;s mind without panic, or blind faith, or manic passion, to be able recognize the likelihood and probability of these progressively stranger concepts without a significant rise in blood-pressure; that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/nerd-nihilism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t just go around bashing the Singularity like that!&#8221; &#8220;Well, why not? Isn&#8217;t it due the same scrutiny as any other statistical or theoretical extrapolation?&#8221; &#8220;No. Just no.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand?! &#8212; the Singularity is a sacred tenant of Nerd-dom, beating out even force-fields and light-sabers in conceptual God-status!&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +3: Growing Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is resistant to entropy. Survival of the species is genetic. And selfish self-preservation is the rule. Carried out over generations, species preserve themselves. And out of humans new forms of life are springing: tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point and push outward into the universe, saturating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Laws of Robotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With increasingly subtle moves, the players in Asimov&#8217;s epic Foundation and Earth are confronted with the daunting decision of whether to initiate an all-encompassing ethical framework, one which just might direct humanity into an acceptable future. The agents of change go unnamed for those who have yet to read it. Dr. Isaac Asimov, in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +2: Extropian Forefathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind, through the long course of biological evolution, has established itself as a moving force in our little corner of the universe. Here on this small planet, mind has infiltrated matter and has taken control. It appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature. — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +1: Intelligence Pops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extropy is a term used to describe the vitality of a system. What we mean by a system being vital, lively, robust, or dynamic is that it resists entropy, the tendency for everything to fall apart and decompose, yes, even protons and neutrons crumble and break apart. For a system to resist this, you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation for the Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MEANING OF LIFE IN A DEVELOPING UNIVERSE John Stewart (source) Member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group The Free University of Brussels Abstract: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and understand its own evolution and the possible future evolution of life in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Methuselarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The 20th century was not 100 years of progress at today’s rate but, rather, was equivalent to about 20 years, because we’ve been speeding up to current rates of change. And we’ll make another 20 years of progress at today’s rate, equivalent to that of the entire 20th century, in the next 14 years. And [...]]]></description>
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