Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University / Special Adviser to UN Secretary /// Rodney Brooks, Director, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory / Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, MIT / Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, iRobot; Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher & Group Manager, Adaptive Systems & Interactions Group, Microsoft Research; Ron Brachman, Director, Information Processing Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / President, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Professor John Buchanan, of the Entertainment Technology Centre at Carnegie Mellon University, describes how artificial intelligence agents and other new technologies are affecting the consumption of media.
Here's a groovin' video that plots technological progress into coming decades. On the surface, it would seem to have everything I like — intelligent machines, a thoroughly dissolved barrier between living and nonliving systems, and Mars colonization.
