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The
Accelerating
Change conference
is a production of the nonprofit Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF). We
are a growing community of 3,200 future-oriented technologists,
entrepreneurs, industry and institutional leaders, academics,
humanists, and others interested in gaining science, technology,
business, and humanist insights regarding accelerating planetary
change.
Accelerating Change
is a forum for exploring our rapidly changing times. Participants
seek improved understanding, foresight, and management of
evolutionary and developmental trends in science and technology,
and an understanding of how today's trends impact business
and humanist agendas.
Forty two distinguished speakers will be presenting, with
six keynotes and three debates on strategic open questions
relevant to our speakers' expertise.
AC2004
emphasizes three main themes (Physical Space, Virtual
Space, and Interface) with selections from twenty
subtheme categories. We approach these themes using four concurrent
dialogs (Science, Technology, Business,
and Humanism) and three fundamental processes (data-guided
Analysis, informed Forecasting, and agendas
for Action) that lend insight and foresight to today's
most relevant and powerful examples of accelerating technological
change.
Conference themes and subthemes:
Physical Space (Things and Networks)
Connectivity/Internet/Network Immunity/Security
GPS/Location-Based
Svcs/RFID/Sensing/Telematics
Handhelds/Computing/Transparency
IT
Outsourcing/Offshoring/Globalization
Robotics/Automation/Instant
Manufacturing
VOIP/Bandwidth/Streaming
Wireless/Cellular
Virtual Space (Simulations
and Virtual Life)
Avatars/Artificial
Life
CGI/Visual
FX
Gaming/MMORPGs/Edutainment
GIS/World
Mapping/Augmented Reality
Persistent
Worlds/Virtual Economies
Social
Software/Groupware
Web
Services/User-Created Content
Interface
(Data, Management Systems, and Convergence)
Databases/Data
Mining/Storage/Knowledge Management
Email/eBooks/Blogs/Lifelogs
Enterprise
Software/CRM/Digital Nervous Systems
Micropayments/DRM/Video
On Demand
Search/Natural
Language Processing/CUI
Semantic
Web/RSS/Push/Persuasive Computing
User
Modeling/Prosody/Personality Capture
AC2004
is
an excellent opportunity to meet and network with top technology,
business, civic, and academic leaders who are all asking themselves
important questions on critical issues and processes of technological
change.
We
hope to see you at Stanford this November. |
