About Us

The Boulder Future Salon co-founders and co-moderators are:

• Wayne Radinsky -- Software Geek and Deep Thinker
• Amanda Hargis -- Geo Whiz and Boulder People Expert
• Melanie Swan -- Investment Entrepreneur and The Person Who Gets Stuff Done Around Here

The Boulder Future Salon is a group dedicated to studying the future -- will Moore's Law, the doubling of computing power, continue for another 50 years? If it does what will be the consequences to world politics, to society, and to our professional and personal lives, in a world of ever-accelerating scientific and technological change? Will advances in neuroscience and computing lead to true artificial intelligence -- AI as intelligent as human beings, able to talk in English (or any other language), able to feel emotions, able to set its own goals, find its own meaning in life, not to mention do any human job, like work in a factory or drive a truck? Will nanotechnology produce computers with hundreds of times the power of the human brain? Will nuclear fusion produce unlimited energy? Will medical advances, from stem cell research, extend our lifetimes? Will there ever be a possibility of immortality? If it does will it be only for the ultra-wealthy, or for everybody?

Are you ready?

The Boulder Future Salon group is modeled on the Bay Area Future Salon started in Silicon Valley in 2001. We try take a "big picture" look at society and technology. We are not focused on any one technology -- semiconductors, or software, or neuroscience, or physics or nuclear technology. We are focused on all technology areas -- because we want to know how their combined evolution will impact our lives in the future.

The Boulder Future Salon is part of a nationwide network of Future Salons and affiliated with the Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization founded by John Smart in 2001 for study of this amazing phenomena -- the accelerating pace of technological change. Why does technological change accelerate, rather than continue at an even, linear pace? Will this acceleration continue? What does it all mean? We don't know -- that's why ASF was founded, to find out, and to find out how we can direct the process towards positive outcomes. More at accelerating.org.