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Barry Robinson interviews the cast of the theatrical version of The Woman in Black, Julian Forsyth Antony Eden before their first performance at The Futurist Theatre on Monday 17th December 2012 Celebrating its 25th birthday, the unanimously acclaimed production of THE WOMAN IN BLACK returns to Scarborough, where it first premiered back in 1987. Offering audiences a thrilling Christmas treat, the production will play at the Scarborough Futurist Theatre from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd December as part of a major national tour. Julian Forsyth plays the role of #39;Arthur Kipps #39; and Antony Eden plays the role of #39;The Actor #39;. Both Forsyth and Eden have previously performed these roles at the Fortune Theatre in the West End. THE WOMAN IN BLACK is produced by PW Productions Ltd. Adapted by STEPHEN MALLATRATT From the novel by SUSAN HILL, THE WOMAN IN BLACK was first performed at the Theatre-By-The-Sea in Scarborough in 1987 to rave reviews. Now in its 23rd year in the West End, over 7 million people have lived to tell the tale of one of the most terrifying and successful theatre events ever staged. Filmed on Monday 17th December 2012 for http://www.bryl-voice.tv, http://www.bryl-radio.com, http://www.scarboroughvoice.co.uk Special thanks to Andrew Nesbit (Futurist Theatre General Manager) and The Futurist Theatre.From:TheTimeblazerViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:41More inEntertainment

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Google Hires Ray Kurzweil as Director of Engineering

A decade ago, Kurzweil predicted self-driving cars and phones that answer questions; now he's working for a company making it happen.

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Most people and corporations are terrible at planning for the future, according to prominent futurist Dr. Peter Bishop of the University of Houston.

"The way the public and particularly the way policy and decision makers talk about the future, is with way more certainty than they should have," Bishop explained in a phone conversation with Business Insider.

"To tell you what's going to happen is asking the wrong question," he said. "It's not what the future will be, but what it could be or what it might be. And the problem is that in the halls of decision, in the boardroom or the pentagon or something like that, That degree of uncertainty is not welcome."

Bishop says there are subtleties to future planning that can only be grasped by a futurist.

Several major corporations feel the same way, which is why Google just hired futurist Ray Kurzweilas director of engineering and Cisco employs furturist Dave Evans. Bishop himself has worked with IBM, NASA, Nestle, and more.

Says Bishop: "We're encouraging companies to spend a little bit of time thinking about the future, single digit percents. They don't do it because they don't know how to do it so they think it's a waste of time, and the reason that they don't know how is because nobody in their schools has ever taught them how to do it."

So what are the keys to thinking like a futurist?

Futurists think in terms of "multiple futures" rather than one. Not only does this increase the chances that one will have a plan for the actual future, but it also "intellectually conditions" one to adapt to change.

Futurists also see value in challenging basic assumptions.

"What we do now is basically assume," says. Bishop. "Then we go on and make plans, and those assumptions are fine. The problem is we don't challenge those assumptions, and what we've been taught in physics class is to state your assumptions. We were never taught to say, 'and what if those assumptions are wrong? What's different about it?'"

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The Past- A Century of Teaching with Technology, Part 2
The Past: A Century of Teaching with Technology, Part 2 Technology has been used to enhance learning and teaching for over one hundred years. Most Faculty and Instructional Technologists are focused on current and future technology and often do not have a century old perspective on the interplay of learning theory and mass communications technology. Dr Henry J. Burnett, although primarily a Futurist, is a scholar of Instructional Technology and Mass Media. Professor James Bierman will trace several stages of digital content development leading to the Internet Age. Time travel to the not so distant past and understand the early beginnings of Instructional Technology in Higher Education. (Note: This presentation will be based on the writings of Paul Saettler, CSU, Sacramento Professor of History, A History of Instructional Technology (1968) and The Evolution of American Educational Technology (1990).From:Henry BurnettViews:2 0ratingsTime:28:47More inEducation

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December 21st, 2012 - Part 2
Episode 96 Special guests: Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., Social Scientist JJ. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Futurist, Social Scientist The reality behind the Mayan calendar and 2012; a new age , a time for spiritual and internal reconfiguration. (more in the next 2 videos of the 2012 series)From:JamesJTraitzViews:1 2ratingsTime:03:06More inEntertainment

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By Scott Kirsner, Globe ColumnistGoogle announced late Friday that it had hired Ray Kurzweil, a legendary inventor, entrepreneur, and futurist...

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Alan Watt Blurb - A Good Example Of Predictive Programming - April 11, 2007
Alan Watt Videos playlist - http://www.youtube.com This is Alan Watt #39;s blurb from April 11, 2007. mp3 - http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com transcript - http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com April 11, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb (ie Educational Talk) "A Good Example of Predictive Programming" Topics discussed: New "Posh" Bound Books, Red-Flagged Emails - Impossible to Answer All, "Corporations Will Push Humans into Alternate Realities", World Corporations - Proctor and Gamble - Bottled Infant Formulas - Sterilized Jars with Synthetic Form of Estrogen - Charles Galton Darwin - Effeminization, Public Programming, Rand Corp., Ford Foundation - Carnegie - Rockefeller - IFTF - Futurist Think-Tanks, Entertainment - Fascinated to Death, Communist Writings - Destruction of Family Unit - Separation of Male and Female, State Care-Takers, Relation of Life and Death, "Old Folks" Homes, Increasing Indoctrination with Each Generation, Welfare State, Multi-Millionaire Lawyer-Politicians, Authorized Candidates, Genetic Engineering, Financing Genetic Research - Purpose-Made Humans - Huxley #39;s "Brave New World", Bio-Ethics Committees, Splicing Human Genes into Animals, Brain-Chipping, UN - UNESCO - World Culture - Brainwashing - Future Bureaucrats, "Utopia", Video Games - Sports - Heroes, Use of Repetitive Slogans, Gullibility of the Young - Soldiers for War - No Thought of Death, Virtue - Virtual - Promises of Better Housing and Living - Utopia, World War I and II, HG Wells - War Propaganda, United Europe, Alan #39;s ...From:1stageofawarenessViews:2 0ratingsTime:50:31More inEducation

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CADA Laureates join retail panel at CADA Summit
Richard Gauthier, President and CEO of the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association, discusses the retail panel at the CADA Summit event on February 13 at the Hilton Toronto, which features CADA Laureates Trevor Boquist and Christian Chia, who are joined by futurist Jim Carroll. Veteran industry analyst Chuck Seguin will moderate this panel session.From:VideoCADAViews:4 0ratingsTime:01:17More inAutos Vehicles

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December 21st, 2012 - Part 1
Episode 95 Special guests: Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., Social Scientist JJ. Hurtak, Ph.D., Ph.D. Futurist, Social Scientist The reality behind the Mayan calendar and 2012; a new age , a time for spiritual and internal reconfiguration. (more in the next 3 videos of the 2012 series)From:JamesJTraitzViews:4 1ratingsTime:02:59More inEntertainment

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The Case Against Radical Philosophy: Anarchism, Fascism, and Communism
This video contains a series of arguments explaining why all radical political philosophy is based upon unjustified beliefs (and should therefore be rejected). 1) Utopian Socialist Communes: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org 2) Communism Standard of Living: http://www.econ.washington.edu 3) en.wikipedia.org 4) Economic Rationality: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org 5) Evidence Humans Aren #39;t Perfectly Rational: http://www.bos.frb.org 6) Failed Futurist Predications: listverse.com http://www.rinkworks.com 7) Problem of the Double Coincidence of Wants: en.wikipedia.org 8) No Empirical Evidence for Barter Economies (Evidence of Gift Economies) http://www.nakedcapitalism.com archive.mises.org 9) Iceland #39;s 5th Court: en.wikipedia.org 10) Medieval Ireland: en.wikipedia.org 11) Paris Commune: en.wikipedia.org 12) Spanish Civil War: en.wikipedia.org econfaculty.gmu.edu 13) Ukraine Famine: en.wikipedia.org 14) Great Leap Forward Famine: en.wikipedia.org 15) Byzantine Empire: en.wikipedia.orgFrom:LaughingMan0XViews:40 8ratingsTime:39:07More inEducation

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Ray Kurzweil, the author and big thinker on artificial intelligence and other topics, announced Friday he’s been hired by Google to “work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing.”

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The author, inventor, and most notable predictor of a machine intelligence 'singularity' joins the search giant next week as a director of engineering.

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Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): Internet search giant Google has hired Ray Kurzweil, the famed inventor and futurist, to work on 'some of the hardest problems in computer science'.

Kurzweil announced that he would join the tech firm officially on Monday.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kurzweil is best known for his theories about "The Singularity," or the point in the future when technology becomes so advanced that it starts outsmarting humans on its own.

The hiring of Kurzweil builds on existing ties between the author and Google, the report said.

Google has partly funded Kurzweil's Singularity University, an academic program launched a few years ago in Silicon Valley to prep students for a tech-heavy future and such concepts as nanotechnology and robotics, it added.

According to the report, Kurzweil described his new title at Google as Director of Engineering.

"In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic," he wrote on ablog post.

"Fast forward a decade-Google has demonstrated self-driving cars, and people are indeed asking questions of their Android phones," he added. (ANI)

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The man who predicted phones that answer your questions and driverless cars will start at Google on Monday.

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Kurzweil is best known for predictions of immortality but has also created speech recognition technology Ray Kurzweil, notable for developing some early speech and text recognition software, and more recently for his views about the singularity and defeating aging, has joined Google. Kurzweil’s press release says he’ll be working on “new projects involving machine learning and language ...

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Prominent futurist and author Ray Kurzweil has accepted a position as director of engineering at Google, where he plans to work on technology developments in language processing, machine learning, and other areas. Kurzweil has become renowned for auth...

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World famous inventor and artificial intelligence futurist Raymond Kurzweil has announced that he's heading to Mountain View. The 64-year old will join Google on Monday as a Director of Engineering and, in his new role, will focus on machine learning and language processing. He wrote on his blog: "I'm thrilled to be teaming up with Google to work on some of the hardest problems in computer ...

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Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said on Friday that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality."

Kurzweil, an author whose books include "The Age of Spiritual Machines" and "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever," said that Monday would be his first day on the job at Google.

"In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic," Kurzweil said in an online newsletter.

"Fast forward a decade -- Google has demonstrated self-driving cars, and people are indeed asking questions of their Android phones," he continued.

"We're really on a remarkable trajectory of quickening innovation, and Google is at the forefront of much of this development."

Kurzweil, who will turn 65 years old in February, said he has been enthralled by technology, especially machine learning, since he was in his early teens.

He designed software that enable a computer to write original music and his inventions include the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, according to the website kurzweilai.net.

"I've always worked to create practical systems that will make a difference in people's lives, which is what excites me as an inventor," Kurzweil said.

"I'm thrilled to be teaming up with Google to work on some of the hardest problems in computer science so we can turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality."

Google research director Peter Norvig praised Kurzweil's contributions to technology, among them an eponymous reading machine that people -- including famed musician Stevie Wonder -- use to have written works read aloud.

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