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: http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/fall2000/

8 September 2000 to 10 September 2000, the fall gathering of the ForesightInstitute's senior associates and 150 others will gather in Palo Alto, California to discuss the upcoming shifts in society.

Confirmed speakers according to the website as of 2 August 2000 (Links mine):

TomBell?: maverick law prof — who questions even copyright(shocking!) — makes the radical case for Idea Futures
EricDrexler: Foresight Chairman, "How things look these days"
JohnGilmore?: well-known troublemaker, CypherPunk, co-founder of ElectronicFrontierFoundation tells how NanoTechnology is motivating his fight for IntellectualProperty reform and OpenSource
RobertGrudin?: most rare — someone from the humanities with things to say that we need to hear
NeilJacobstein?: leader of the Foresight Guidelines, working to head off nanotech's downside
DaveKrieger?: father of our favorite website NanoDot?, sketches the next big thing online
VernorVinge: coiner of "the Singularity", visionary author of our favorite ScienceFiction novels
KaPingYee [Ka-Ping Yee]: father of CritDotOrg, inspirational freedom fighter through software development

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