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Accelerating
Change 2004 was a great
success!
Major thanks to our world-class speakers, sponsors, volunteers,
and 300+ attendees. See
credits to meet the people who
made it happen.
A few testimonials:
"A phenomenal opportunity to gain a multidisciplinary
perspective on new trends in technology and the future."
— Andrej Gregov, Amazon.com
"A
first class event and one of the best that I've been at this
year.
As good as Pop!Tech." — Dewayne Hendricks
, Dandin Group
"One
of the most stimulating meetings anywhere." —
Chris Peterson,
Foresight
"If you want to know what will be happening in technology
in the next 5-10 years, attend AC2005. Amazing ideas and dialog."
— Richard Law
"The Accelerating Change conference helps me step outside
my normal way of thinking to see a macro view of the evolution
of technology." — Paul King
"Accelerating Change conferences offer the most
"Wow! What a great idea!" moments available at any
price, anywhere." —
Eric Boyd
"The
hallway conversations are as great as the sessions."
— Jay Dean
"You
accelerated my learning" —
Jay
Cross
"Wow!!!"
— Lisa Tansey
"Think you're able to
peer around corners?
Come to AC2005 and see who's three corners ahead of you."
"Attendance is essential for anyone concerned
with
the future impact of technology on individuals and society."
AC2004
Audio:
Free streaming and downloads of conference audio, courtesy
of Doug Kaye and our premiere media partner,
IT Conversations. Check
here to see the archive of AC2004 speakers currently available.
More added every month!
Speaker
PowerPoints:
Visit
Speaker
Slides to see those currently available.
AC2004
DVDs:
Coming to Amazon in 2005, courtesy of Ted
St. Rain at Accelerating Media.
AC2004
Pics:
AC2004
Picture Site (Courtesy
Sam Coniglio,
ASF staff photographer)
AC2004
at Flickr (Upload your public pics here!)
Steve
Jurvetson's Flickr Pics
AC2004
Writeups:
FutureSalon/Evelyn Rodriguez:
Accelerating Change 2004 Kicks Off
AC2004:
Day 1 Notes
AC2004:
Day 2 Notes
Helen
Greiner / Accelerating Change at iRobot
SAP's
Agassi on Enterprise Agility and Future of Software
David
Brin on Evaluating Horizons
Peter
Norvig of Google: Web Search as a Force for Good
Will
Wright Kicks off Day 2
Worldchanging/Jamais
Cascio:
Gordon
Bell on MyLifeBits
Notes
from AC2004: The Transparency Debate
Dan
Gillmor on We, The Media
Internet
Time/Jay Cross
Accelerating
Change 2004: The times, they are a changin' (nice pics)
Multiplayer
Online Games Directory/Doug McIntyre:
Accelerating
Change 2004: A Look Back to What's Ahead
Spectrum/David
Duberman
Show
Report: Accelerating Change 2004
Slashdot:
Segway
vs. Roomba.
Second Life: Prompt Criticality/Cory Ondrejka:
Segway
v. Roomba
Terra Nova: Accelerating
Change 2004
TechNewsWorld/Sonia Arrison: 'Second
Life' Lessons from a Virtual World
Gregor
Rothfuss' Blog
Randy
Moss' Blog
Forty-two leading
change agents. Six keynotes.
Three themes. Three debates.
People and ideas that accelerate our world.
AC2004 Participant Statements
In the last quarter, $2.1 billion in venture capital—38%
of all the venture money in the U.S. —was invested in
Silicon Valley. (BusinessWeek 10.11.04). This was
more than twice that invested in the next closest region (Boston).
Which people, ideas and innovations will fuel the next long
boom? Come find out at Accelerating
Change 2004.
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Physical
Space
Keynote 1
Helen
Greiner
Co-founder and
Chairman of the Board, iRobot
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Physical
Space
Keynote 2
Shai
Agassi
Executive
Board Member, SAP |
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Virtual
Space
Keynote 1
Will
Wright
Founder, Maxis
Creator, Sim City,
The Sims |
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Virtual
Space
Keynote 2
Cory
Ondrejka
VP of Product
Development, Linden Lab,
creators of Second
Life |
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Interface
Keynote 1
Richard
Marks
Special
Projects Manager, Research and Development, Sony
Computer Entertainment America |
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Interface
Keynote 2
Doug
Engelbart
Digital
Interface Legend
Founder, Bootstrap
Institute |
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AC2004
Emcee
Sonia
Arrison
Director
of Technology Studies, Pacific
Research Institute (PRI) |
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AC2004
Emcee
Melanie
Swan
President,
Cygnet
Capital |
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Change
Leader
David
Brin
Physicist, Science
Fiction and Nonfiction Writer; Author, The
Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose
Between Privacy and Freedom? |
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Change
Leader
Jim
Spohrer
Director, Almaden
Services Research, IBM
Almaden |
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Change
Leader
Cynthia
Breazeale
Innovation
Center & Strategic Programs Manager, Intel |
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Change
Leader
Dan
Gillmor
Business
and Technology Columnist, San
Jose Mercury News
Author, We,
the Media: Journalism By and For the People |
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Change
Leader
Andreas
Olligschlaeger
President,
TruNorth Data
Systems
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Change
Leader
Bruce
Hall
President, Digital
Auto Drive (Best Vision System at DARPA
Grand Challenge) |
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Change
Leader
Steve
Jurvetson
Managing
Director, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson |
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AC2004
Moderator
Tom
Cowper
Deputy
Director, Statewide Wireless Network, New
York State Office for
Technology; Staff Inspector, New York State
Police |
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Change
Leader
Gee
Rittenhouse
VP
of Wireless Research, Lucent |
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Change
Leader
Gordon
Bell
Project
Director, MyLifeBits,
Microsoft
BARC |
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Change
Leader
Nova
Barlow
Online
Community Developer, Themis
Group |
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Change
Leader
Dana
Blankenhorn
Technology
Business Journalist and Consultant
Author, The
Blankenhorn Effect: How to Put Moore's Law to Work for
You |
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Change
Leader
Joachim
Schaper
Vice
President Americas, SAP
Research |
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Change
Leader
Milton
Chen
CTO,
VSee Lab |
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Change
Leader
Clark
Aldrich
Co-Founder,
SimuLearn
Lead Designer, Virtual
Leader;
Author, Simulations
and the Future of Learning |
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Change
Leader
Dewayne
Hendricks
Wireless
Activist; CEO, Dandin
Group; Director, Wireless Task Force, GBOB Initiative |
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Change
Leader
Christine
Peterson
Founder
and Vice President, Foresight
Institute; Author, Leaping
the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work |
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Change
Leader
Steve
Salyer
President,
Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) |
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Change
Leader
Keith
Halper
CEO
and Co-Founder, Kuma
Reality Games |
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Change
Leader
Brad
Templeton
Chairman,
Electronic Frontier
Foundation |
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Change
Leader
Jamie
Hale
President,
Gaming Open
Market
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Change
Leader
Robin
Harper
Senior
VP, Linden Lab, creators
of Second Life |
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Change
Leader
Jeremy
Bailenson
Director,
Virtual
Human Interaction Lab; Assistant Professor, Stanford
U. |
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Change
Leader
Daniel
James
CEO,
Three Rings; Lead
Designer, Yoho!
Puzzle Pirates |
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Change
Leader
Brian
Green
Co-Founder,
Near Death Studios |
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Change
Leader
Peter
Norvig
Director
of Search Quality, Google;
Author, Artificial
Intelligence: A Modern Approach
(the world's leading texbook in AI)
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Change
Leader
Peter
Kaminski
CTO,
Socialtext |
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Change
Leader
John
Mauldin
President,
Millenium Wave Advisors;
Author,
Bull's
Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and
Mirrors Market |
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Change
Leader
Tim
Sibley
Chief
Scientist, StreamSage |
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Change
Leader
Peter
Thiel
Co-Founder/Former
CEO, PayPal
President, Clarium
Capital
Author, The
Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance
On Campus |
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Change
Leader
BJ
Fogg
Director
of Research and Design, Persuasive
Technology Lab, Stanford U; Author, Persuasive
Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and
Do |
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Change
Leader
Wlodek
Zadrozny
Technologist,
On
Demand Innovation Services, IBM
Research |
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Change
Leader
Zack
Rosen
Founder
and Director, CivicSpace
Labs; Creator, DeanSpace
social software |
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Change
Leader
Lada
Adamic
Research
Scientist, HP Labs |
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Change
Leader
Rich
Skrenta
Co-Founder
and CEO, Topix.net
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Change
Leader
Alex
Lightman
CEO,
Charmed Technology;
Chair, North American
IPv6 Summits; Author Brave
New Unwired World
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AC2004
Emcee
Mark
Finnern
Collaboration Manager, SAP
Developer Network; Blogger,
O'Reilly Network; Board Member, ASF;
Co-Producer, AC2004 |
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Change
Leader
John
Smart
President,
ASF
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Change
Leader
Jerry
Paffendorf
Director,
ASF |
This year's theme, Physical
Space, Virtual Space, and Interface, analyzes
the intersection of three monumental trends:
Accelerating interconnectivity of the physical world
Increasing
accuracy of the simulated world
Growing
intelligence of the human-machine interface.
See topics for more details.
What is Accelerating
Change? Accelerating Change
is the premiere conference exploring the opportunities and
challenges of accelerating technological change. Our
conference exists to network the most broad minded, future-aware,
practical and passionate speakers and participants.
Each year we collectively consider the staggering changes
occuring on our increasingly intelligent planet.
In today's fast-paced technological environment, understanding
and guiding accelerating change involves a new way
of thinking, learning to see the most powerful and
broadly applicable innovations, processes, trends, and physical
efficiencies, and discovering where, when, and how to harness
those to create value in the modern world.
Every fall at Stanford University, Accelerating
Change brings together world-class speakers
and attendees to discuss today's most important trends in
the science, technology, business, and social activism of
accelerating change. Think Emerging Technologies
(O'Reilly, MIT) but with a bigger picture, longer-term, strategic
scope.
Speakers present a mix of analysis, forecasting,
and action items, with multidisciplinary inquiry and
a synthesis of technical, entrepreneurial,
and social development dialogs.
Why Should You Attend? Accelerating
Change promotes high-yield, multidisciplinary,
and critical understanding of accelerating technological change
in service to professional and personal development. You'll
meet uniquely broad minded, synthetic-thinking practical futurists
and change-makers here, and the connections you make will
be among the most important, productive, and informative in
your life.
Who Should Attend? Anyone with an interest
or responsibility for trend tracking, forecasting,
investing, competitive intelligence, strategic planning, policy
analysis, product development, business development, and
change management.
How does Computation Affect our Environment?
Some examples:
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Moore's Law. In 1964, Gordon
Moore, co-founder of Intel, noted that CMOS
transistor density doubles reliably every 18-24 months.
In 1999, Ray Kurzweil noted this doubling
trend has held for at least 110 years. What will this
enable in 2015? In 2025? |
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Dickerson's Law. In 1977, Richard
Dickerson, professor of physical chemistry
at Caltech, noted that solved protein crystal structures
had risen from one in 1961 to 23. He published a simple
exponential formula which predicted that by March 2001,
scientists would have solved 3-D structures for more
than 12,000 proteins. He was only 57 short of the actual
number. What other physical processes are so predictably
computation dependent? |
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Smith's Law. In 1999, Alvy
Ray Smith, Microsoft graphics guru and co-founder
of Pixar, said "Reality is 80 million polygons."
Joi Ito notes that Toy Story
had 5-6 million polygons per frame. Toy Story 2
had twice that. Our best digital faces today have 100
motion control points. The actual Reality Transition
may be 800 million polygons per frame and thousands
of control points. We will reach that threshold within
15 years. What then? |
Accelerating Change
meta-themes: How do we use technology to rapidly and humanely
improve our world? Where does the world need to be changed,
and what do we need to protect in the process?
Need More? Read this special
letter on the personal and professional benefits of the
Accelerating Change
community.
We hope you can join us at Stanford this November.
Sincerely,
John Smart
President, ASF |
