Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

August 17, 2002 7:17 AM

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce sponsored a workshop in 2001 December and released a 405 page document recently. Several journalists then commented on the report. Recently What utopia can technology deliver? on zdnet, earlier When brains meet computer brawn on cnet and Unfogging the Future on techcentralstation. Was there any public debate following these predictions or was it too much to absorb?
posted by neu (2 comments total)

Lots of width without much depth hard to know whats real and whats hype.
posted by stbalbach at 11:10 AM on August 17, 2002

I agree with you entirely, thanks. The different presentations are of very different quality. Interestingly it's much easier to dismiss the predictions of those people whose research field one is very familiar with than others.

In any case, this turned out to be a boring topics for a Sunny Saturday. But at least MetaFilter now has the links to these intriguing documents and three related commentaries.
posted by neu at 6:15 AM on August 18, 2002