Systems Theories of Accelerating Change
Posted by Jeriaska on February 16th, 2008
John Smart and Eliezer Yudkowsky at the 2006 Singularity Summit at Stanford
John Smart is a developmental systems theorist who studies accelerating change, computational autonomy, and the singularity. He is President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, a nonprofit community for research, education, consulting, and selected advocacy of communities and technologies of accelerating change. He also co-produces the Accelerating Change Conference, a meeting of 350 change-leaders and students at Stanford University, and edits ASF’s free newsletter, Accelerating Times, read by future-oriented thinkers around the world. He is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, the FBI Futures Working Group, and the editorial advisory board of Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
In 2006, he presented the talk “Systems Theories of Accelerating Change” at the Singularity Summit at Stanford. There he looked at accelerating change from universal, biological, human cultural, and technological perspectives, and introduced a few well known and unorthodox ideas in acceleration mechanics.
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