The NextWave Initiative event planned for January 15 has been canceled.
We’re grateful for the interest and conversations this work sparked and appreciate everyone who planned to attend.
Longmont’s Civic Response to the Age of Intelligence
Community preparedness for the technological and social changes ahead.
Posts
The latest posts from the Longmont NextWave Initiative.
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On Thursday night, I looked out at a packed Stewart Auditorium and asked you all to imagine a beach. We’re all busy cleaning up the debris on the sand—our daily tasks, our immediate problems—but just offshore, a 100-foot tsunami is forming. That tsunami is the AI revolution. Thank you to everyone who joined us for…
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Nick Bostrom On Amazon A New York Times bestseller Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack.…
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Kurzweil is one of the fathers of computer science and is best known for inventing key speech‑recognition and music‑synthesis technology, but he’s also the most audited futurist alive. Roughly every decade since the 1970s he’s published quantitative forecasts; independent analysts put his historical accuracy in the 80‑90 percent range. Why this edition matters: