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#182
July 23, 2012

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FIRST HALF HOUR


Reminder of the IEEE Global Humanitarian conference in Seattle, http://www.ieeeghtc.org

Science News Headlines

John Casti, complexity scientist and systems theorist, founder of the X-Center in Vienna

Author of X-EVENTS, The Collapse of Everything; forecasting the next presidential election; "What does happen to our standard of living when our seductive music of technology stops?"; Digital darkness; loss of food supply; our electronics go out widely.

tinytechjobs

A visit to The Den of Strangers (wisdom of Samuel Barclay Beckett)
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SECOND HALF HOUR

Answers from the Fountain of Youth-less Information

John Casti, complexity scientist and systems theorist, founder of the X-Center in Vienna

Author of X-EVENTS, The Collapse of Everything; More warnings of extreme events possible: physics and chemistry going wrong, nuclear wars, Oil depletion, pandemics and plagues, draughts, robot rebellions, world-wide economic collapse

The Voice of Reason (Michael Kelly, Prof. Technology, University of Cambridge, UK)