[Mitworld] New: Gary Hart on War on Terror, Ray Kurzweil on the Flat World

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[REPORT CARD ON THE WAR ON TERROR]

Former U.S. Senator and national security expert Gary Hart hosts Daniel
Benjamin and Steve Simon as they discuss their recent book "The Next
Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it
Right."

MODERATOR:

Gary Hart
 Former Colorado Senator and one-time presidential candidate
 Co-Chair, Hart-Rudman Commission on Homeland Security in the 21st
 Century (1998-2001)

PANELISTS:

Daniel Benjamin
 Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic &
 International Studies

Steven Simon
 Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/326/>

[QUOTE]
"We're so thoroughly hated that moderates won't stand with us. We need
allies. We need people to go back to believing America as an upholder of
ideals it was not too long ago."
--Daniel Benjamin


EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies

<http://web.mit.edu/cis/>

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[INNOVATION EVERYWHERE--HOW THE ACCELERATION OF "GNR" (GENETICS,
NANOTECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS) WILL CREATE A FLAT AND EQUITABLE WORLD]

Inventor Ray Kurzweil demonstrates how the rate of change in
technological progress is increasing at a dizzying pace, and looks to
the next 15 years as ones filled with great promise to solve some of the
world's most complex challenges.

SPEAKER:

Raymond Kurzweil
 Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
 Author, The Singularity is Near


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/327/>

[QUOTE]
 "Because of the exponential nature of exponential growth, we'll see
20,000 years of progress in the 21st century, about 1000 times greater
than the 20th century."
--Ray Kurzweil

EVENT HOST:  Technology Review

<http://www.technologyreview.com/>

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Coming in April from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program,
2006 MIT Information Technology Conference:

[NEXT GENERATION COMPUTING AND WIRELESS NETWORKS]

The MIT IT Conference will present research from MIT laboratories that
will define future directions in IT and networks--technologies that will
impact industry, commerce and the way we live. Talks and demonstrations
include secure access to information, new intelligent interfaces, wired
and wireless high-performance networks, very large-scale distributed
computing, tools for reliability of large systems, managing IT
resources, deriving value from IT investments, and new applications that
will drive the technologies on the horizon.

Online agenda, brochure and registration

<http://ilp-www.mit.edu/events/IT2006-MITW/>

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