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Notes on multiple speakers including Michael Crow, Neal Stephenson, and Steward Brand
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Envisioning the Future Panel, moderated by Neal Stephenson
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If you take somebody from 1900 and put them in the now, they would lack the vocabulary to describe the things around them.
In short, something radically new is in the air: new ways of understanding physical systems, new ways of thinking about thinking that call into question many of our basic assumptions. A realistic biology of the mind, advances in physics, information technology, genetics, neurobiology, engineering, the chemistry of materials—all are challenging basic assumptions of who and what we are, of what it means to be human. The arts and the sciences are again joining together as one culture, the third culture. Those involved in this effort—on either side of C.P. Snow's old divide—are at the center of today's intellectual action. They are the new humanists.
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