the future of science, and audio of presentations from the Long Now Foundation

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Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, speculates about the future of science based on a talk he have gave a few weeks ago.

He has some interesting ideas about computation and data in relationship to science.
The text is also available in a posting to his blog, The Technium.

The talk was a Seminar About Long-term Thinking (SALT) from the Long Now Foundation.
A foundation which doesn't seem to have heard yet about RSS, but anyway...

You can download audio of the seminars, they have posted the talks from November 2003 to February 2006 so far.  (They have no RSS, but they make a point of providing Ogg Vorbis format audio?)  Past presentations have included

• The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years - Rusty Schweickart - Mar 02004
• How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed - Jared Diamond - Jul 02005

The main site is http://www.longnow.org/

It reports the next presentation will be  Friday, April 14, 02006 - Jimmy Wales - "Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture" - Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm.  The talk will take place at The Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

There is also a discussion section and (ewww) mailing lists.