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| Happy Thanksgiving - Hello all, Happy Thanksgiving to all of our futurists. 2009 has been an interesting year for me. Due of the financial situation, everything has been slowed down/downsized, so there is actually more time for me to study/learn/research | Jack Ha | Nov 26, 2009 |
| Re: [future-53] New Meetup: Futurist's Year End Happy Hour/Assistant Organizer - Jack, I'm interested in being an assistant organizer. I also organize this meetup: | Rob | Nov 16, 2009 |
| New Meetup: Futurist's Year End Happy Hour - Hello futurists, Dec is coming. Let's round off this year with the Year End Happy Hours. Come talk about the future with a drink! 2010 is coming. Should we talk about the next decade? Best, Jack Announcing a new Meetu | Jack Ha | Nov 16, 2009 |
| The right date info - Sorry guys, I put the wrong date on the poll for the best time and date to meet. I just updated it. Please vote. Good that you guys are interested in social media. Jack | Jack Ha | Sep 16, 2009 |
| Hello Please vote for TOPIC, DATE & TIME for October meetup. - Hello, We haven't been meeting for a while, can't wait to meet you all. During the summer I was super busy in starting a video education website for grade school kids and managed talks and seminars on social media marketing. Wish you all had a | Jack Ha | Sep 16, 2009 |
| Hey - Preview not available | Marcia | Jul 12, 2009 |
| Re: [future-53] Start your cloud computing business with $10 - Stephen, Thanks for the info. Needless to say, I wanted to thank Jack for organizing the meetup as it's not always easy to keep these types of things going. Jeff On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Stephen | Jeff | May 18, 2009 |
| Re: [future-53] Start your cloud computing business with $10 - This describes how to get Firefox on OS X to display PDFs within a web page. I think the main issue for most people on OS X is that they probably haven't installed Adobe Acrobat and instead are still using the built-in Preview application. If you | Stephen Williams | May 18, 2009 |
| Start your cloud computing business with $10 - Hello all, The CEO of airset, Brian has changed his schedule, so we are re-scheduling their presentation. Now will be May 18th, Monday down by Palo Alto @ 6pm. So, wish all of you can attend. I was at airset's Berkeley office to meet | Jack Ha | May 5, 2009 |
| Berkeley Nano Forum (this Sunday) - Hey members, For those who may not be aware that the Berkeley Nano Forum is happening this Sunday from 8:30 am to 6pm. Register online | Jack Ha | Apr 24, 2009 |
| New Meetup: Cloud Computing @ airset.com Downtown Berkeley - Hey guys, We haven't meet for 2 months. In May, I got something exciting. We are visiting to airset.com-a bay area Cloud Computing company. And their Founder & CEO Mr. Brian Dougherty is giving us a presentation on site. He rarel | Jack Ha | Apr 24, 2009 |
| Re: [future-53] March meetup cancel - Preview not available | Robert | Mar 25, 2009 |
| Re: [future-53] March meetup cancel - Jack & All: How would you feel if we still attended a meetup, in lieu of what you had planned? I had this on my calendar fo | Dan Serri | Mar 25, 2009 |
| March meetup cancel - Sorry guys, I have some emergency. So, I have to cancel this month's meetup. However, next month we will have a wonderful meetup with guest speaker. Best, Jack The Palo Alto Future March Meetup, scheduled to occur on | Jack Ha | Mar 25, 2009 |
| Meetup details changed: The Palo Alto Future January Meetup - Hello everybody, Happy New Year to you all. It's great to have our first meetup of the year coming this Thursday. We will be meeting at the Round Table Pizza @ Palo Alto University Avenue. This meetup we will discuss the effect of th | Jack Ha | Jan 20, 2009 |
| Meetup Cancelled: The Palo Alto Future December Meetup - The Palo Alto Future December Meetup, scheduled to occur on December 25, 2008 7:00 PM has been canceled. Please update your plans accordingly. The date was automatically generated by the Meetup software. As of today we have no plans to meet in | nanomatrix | Nov 30, 2008 |
| Re: meeting on Christmas? - We could either have the meeting 12/18 or skip December. Does anyone have something burning to discuss in December? We could predict Obama's first ten actions as President, or discuss whether his election is likely to change the timeline in any (s | Kennita | Nov 30, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] meeting on Christmas? - Ahh...this must be someone's end-of-the-year sense of humor. Steve Dvorak M.A. In human societies there will always be differences of views and inter | Steve Dvorak | Nov 30, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] meeting on Christmas? - I agree. --- On Sat, 11/29/08, Robin wrote: > From: Robin > Subject: [future-53] meeting on Christmas? > To: [address removed] > Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 11:36 PM > Am I th | valerie kameya | Nov 29, 2008 |
| meeting on Christmas? - Am I the only one that thinks Christmas is a bad time to meet? Aside from the fact that Round Table probably won't be open, I imagine a lot of people won't be available that day. -- Robin Gane-McCalla YIM: Robin_G | user 4942243 | Nov 29, 2008 |
| Meetup Cancelled: The Palo Alto Future November Meetup - The Palo Alto Future November Meetup, scheduled to occur on November 27, 2008 7:00 PM has been canceled. Please update your plans accordingly. With the upcoming holidays many members will be out of town with family or friends. So we have decide | nanomatrix | Oct 29, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] Can't accept any more for Convergence08 group discount! - eek! I forgot to do this first thing this morning! Is it too late, can I mail you a check? --Mark On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Kennita < | Mark Carranza | Oct 20, 2008 |
| Can't accept any more for Convergence08 group discount! - I can't accept any more for the Convergence08 group discount -- PayPal is starting to call | Kennita | Oct 20, 2008 |
| Only need one more for Convergence08 group discount! - In a little over a day the Convergence08 rate goes up from $145 to $195. But one more person will | Kennita | Oct 19, 2008 |
| JHTC Event: Three Perspectives on Technology Evolution, 10/14 - JHTC Event: Three Perspectives on Technology Evolution, 10/14 Three perspectives on technolog | Tanya | Oct 6, 2008 |
| Hello--let's meet tonight - Hey all, I can't wait for tonight's meeting. Recently the financial crisis in Wall Street has almost driven away all the mobile capital. I would like to know any of you have something to share about the financing issues you may have in the tech | Jack Ha | Sep 25, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] 2008 State of the Future - Preview not available | Robert | Jul 14, 2008 |
Re: [future-53] 2008 State of the Future - Take a look at this! Possibly the "2008 State of the Future" report which proposes 15 global challenges (and more) may be of interest to our group. What do you think?
http://www.millennium-project. org/millennium/sof2008.html
Steve
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Steve Dvorak | Jul 14, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] IEEE Spectrum Special Report on the Singularity - great stuff! On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Kennita < [address removed] > wrote: | Jeff | Jul 7, 2008 |
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IEEE Spectrum Special Report on the Singularity - Many perspectives:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/singularity
Live long and prosper,
Kennita
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The War on Terrorism is missing the point:
what we need is a War on War!
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Kennita | Jul 7, 2008 |
| Re: My list of keywords & phrases from 080630 - > Future salon meetup (I couldn't find this on the meetup site...) That's because it's not a Meetup. Googling 'bay area future salon' yields as its first hit http://www.futuresalon.org/ Live long and prosper, Kennita -- The War on Terrorism | Kennita | Jul 1, 2008 |
| My list of keywords & phrases from 080630 - Memristor Crysis Peak oil Chevrolet Volt Battery Energy Conversion Devices Finite-Element Analysis Collaborative Meta-model (not many good hits for this one - perhaps Seldon can suggest a better keyphrase) Dark Pools Quants Future salon meetup ( | Scott Jackisch | Jul 1, 2008 |
| Tuesday, 6/24/2008, 19:30 -- Event some may find interesting - (What effect might large-scale diamond manufacture have? I wonder if his discussion includes nanotech?) Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 7:30 PM The Mysteries of Diamonds: Bizarre History, Amazing Properties, Unique Applications Harris Kagan (Ohio St | Kennita | Jun 22, 2008 |
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Meeting details changed: The Palo Alto Future June Meeting - I've updated this meeting. For more details, see the full listing: http://future.meetup.com/53/calendar/7997392/ When: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 7:00 PM Where: Round Table Pi
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Jack Ha | May 31, 2008 |
| Fwd: 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum - Guess I ought to tell you all about this as well, for those who want to learn more about nanotech in some real depth: 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum Prospects: from Ideal to Real Sunday, April 27, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Haas School of Bu | Kevin D. Keck | Apr 23, 2008 |
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Fwd: Study Finds Cloudy Outlook for Solar Panels - News release:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/faculty/Borenstein.html
Full paper:
http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp176.pdf
Says that variable power pricing will help bolster the case for solar
to help meet peak summer loads, but it's not
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Kevin D. Keck | Apr 22, 2008 |
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More on biofuels - $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/22/2120218
(5-10 years; maybe $2 --ed.)
Live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a sh
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Kennita | Apr 22, 2008 |
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Biofuels/Geothermal - We discussed biofuels and geothermal energy at
the Future Meetup -- here are relevant articles
from this month's Discover Magazine (in honor
of Earth Day).
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/03-biofuel-farming-looks-to-be-
an-environmental-disas
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Kennita | Apr 22, 2008 |
| Step in the direction of dry nanotech? - > http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13725-tiny-robotic- > hand-has-the-gentlest-touch.html > Maybe these can be used to make the next smaller set.... Live long and prosper, Kennita -- Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever t | Kennita | Apr 22, 2008 |
| In Vitro Meat - Preview not available | Kennita | Apr 21, 2008 |
| Fwd: [Mitbay] MITCNC Events: Week of April 21 - April 27 - Just saw this today, for anyone who might be interested: Begin forwarded message: > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Tue 04/29/2008 6:00pm Emerging Technologies: Be Proactive, Not > Cautious > --------------------- | Kennita | Apr 21, 2008 |
| Monday's Meeting - Good evening Folks, I've just finished the agenda for Monday nite. Everybody get 3 min. to talk about a disruptive technology they're interested in before the General Discussion. If you have any articles or graphics about the tech you're | nanomatrix | Apr 20, 2008 |
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Energy from vibration - I've thought off and on for a while about
how much energy is wasted in vibration of
engines, and finally Googled it. A sampling
of the results:
Microgenerator uses vibration to produce energy
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/487414
Energy ef
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Kennita | Apr 19, 2008 |
| Meeting details changed: The Palo Alto Future April Meeting - Hello all, We've got a very nice meeting in March, I enjoyed a lot. Next week, we are going to have another meeting on Monday 7pm in the Round Table Pizza on University Ave in Palo Alto downtown. Since it was full with 5 maybe, I opened up a fe | Jack Ha | Apr 17, 2008 |
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Fodder for the timeline: nanomedicine/telemedicine - Quebec conference features next-decade nanomedical and telemedical
breakthroughs
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?
id%3D8295
Live long and prosper,
Kennita
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Relativity: A grook with no reference whatev
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Kennita | Apr 4, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] Meeting details changed: 3 more seats added - Hi all, Nice to meet you all, and Here is about "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2008" Editor: Mitchell Levy | dong jiang | Mar 31, 2008 |
| RE: [future-53] Meeting details changed: 3 more seats added - | nanomatrix | Mar 29, 2008 |
| Meeting details changed: 3 more seats added - As of this morning, the meetup is almost full, has only 1 space left. Since there are a few members Rsvped with "maybe", so I added a few more spaces to it. Jack I've updated this meeting. For more details, see | Jack Ha | Mar 29, 2008 |
| RE: [future-53] March Meetup - | nanomatrix | Mar 28, 2008 |
| March Meetup - Hello all, Are you ready for the meetup this coming Monday at the Round Table Pizza on University Ave at 7pm? In the beginning of the meeting, we will be distributing a FutureTech timeline which is a 2 page list of future disruptive | Jack Ha | Mar 28, 2008 |
| New Meeting: The Palo Alto Future March Meeting - Announcing a new meeting for The Palo Alto Future Meetup Group! What: The Palo Alto Future March Meeting When: Monday, March 31, 7:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Who should come: Are you interest | Jack Ha | Mar 20, 2008 |
| RE: [future-53] What is the best time to meet for March meetup? - .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Thank you James. Jack | Jack Ha | Mar 10, 2008 |
| RE: [future-53] What is the best time to meet for March meetup? - .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Hi Jack; FYI, we're having our Silicon Vall | James Clement | Mar 10, 2008 |
| What is the best time to meet for March meetup? - Hello, Are you ready for our March meetup? We would like to know what time in a week is the best to meet. Please spend a min to response to the poll. I will close the poll and pick a date tomorrow. Link for the poll < | Jack Ha | Mar 10, 2008 |
| Hello - Hello all, The romantic February just passed. Wish you had a great one. I am planning our March meetup. As our very interesting Future Event Timeline Project started, we would like to have higher participation; therefore I just set | Jack Ha | Mar 4, 2008 |
| Message Recall Failure: Recall: [future-53] Meeting details changed: Future Timeline Project Kickoff Meeting - | Lazmo | Feb 27, 2008 |
| Meeting details changed: Future Timeline Project Kickoff Meeting - Sorry for the last minute change. Since we cannot get the upstairs room at the Round Table Pizza, we are moving to the Prolific Oven. It is only a few mins walking distance from the Round Table Pizza. Sorry about the last minute change. If you have any qu | Jack Ha | Feb 27, 2008 |
| Meeting details changed: Future Timeline Project Kickoff Meeting - Hello all, We have not been meeting in the last 3 months. Now we are meeting tomorrow. This will be the kick off meeting of our future timeline project proposed by nanomatrix. It will be very interesting to list out future events into a timelin | Jack Ha | Feb 27, 2008 |
| RE: Bay Area Future Salon - | nanomatrix | Jan 12, 2008 |
| RE: [future-53] Bay Area Future Salon - Preview not available | James Clement | Jan 12, 2008 |
| RE: [future-53] Bay Area Future Salon - | nanomatrix | Jan 12, 2008 |
| Re: [future-53] Bay Area Future Salon - I am confused. The Palo Alto Future Meetup Group says its next meeting is on the 24th. Has this been changed or added to? The we | Samantha Atkins | Jan 10, 2008 |
| Bay Area Future Salon - | nanomatrix | Jan 10, 2008 |
| Event Cancelled: The Palo Alto Future November Meetup - The Palo Alto Future November Meetup, scheduled to occur on Tue, November 27 at 7:00 PM has been cancelled. Please update your plans accordingly. If you have further questions, you can email me through the 'Contact Organizer' feature on the mee | Jack Ha | Nov 27, 2007 |
| Event details changed: The Palo Alto Future November Meetup - Sorry groups for the confusion. I have changed the meeting date again finally. Nov 27 Tue was the date I planned to have the meetup. And the previous Nov 29 is the date I put on by mistake. I apologize for all the inconvenience. This change of the date, t | Jack Ha | Nov 8, 2007 |
| Event details changed: The Palo Alto Future November Meetup - Hey, I think our meeting is better give way to Thanksgiving. I just reviewed our meeting date it as too close to the Transhumanist's meetup. So I changed it again. For the place, I moved BACK to the PROLIFIC OVEN for now. | Jack Ha | Nov 8, 2007 |
| Re: Urgent: Wed night good time to meet? - > Kennita, > > I am working the meeting time, I forgot about your preferences. Is > Wed night a good time for you? > > Jack > If you mean the 7th, yes. The 14th is the Bay Area Transhumanist Association Meetup. http://transhumanism.meet | Kennita | Nov 2, 2007 |
| Urgent: Wed night good time to meet? - .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Kennita, I am working the meeting time, I forgot about your preferences. | Jack Ha | Nov 1, 2007 |
| Fwd: Future issues organizations - From the KurzweilAI.net Weekly Newsletter: Orgs that specialize in topics we might like to discuss: The Lifeboat Foundation and THe Future of Humanity Institute. Begin forwarded message: > Lifeboat Foundation names James > Martin 2007 Guardian | Kennita | Oct 30, 2007 |
| RE: [future-53] What's coming - Kennita, You're absolutely right about the Global Shortage of water. In fact it's becoming big business. With countries like China that have the same amount of water as Canada but 100 times as many people, over half of their cities regularly have | nanomatrix | Oct 29, 2007 |
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What's coming - I just heard on the radio about water being a
looming problem ("the next oil"). Also plastic,
except there's too much of it rather than too
little (http://snipurl.com/plasticpatch). I can
think of ways technology could help with both of
these; what
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Kennita | Oct 26, 2007 |
| October 25 meeting comments - | nanomatrix | Oct 26, 2007 |
| Re: [future-53] Hello + Poll - Hi Jack, Thanks for your email and keeping us up to date. When is the next planned meetup (the one at Roundtable)? Thanks again. -Eugene On 10/8/07, Jack Ha < | Lee | Oct 10, 2007 |
| Re: [future-53] Hello + Poll - FTR, the URL of the poll is | Kennita | Oct 8, 2007 |
| Hello + Poll - Hello all, How was your summer? We had our Sept Meetup 2 weeks ago. That was the second Meetup we have after I have been the organizer. That was a nice meeting. We learn a little bit about each other's background and how do they get interested | Jack Ha | Oct 8, 2007 |
| Tomorrow's Meetup - Hello, How have you been? Last Meetup, the August Meetup was a pretty good one. We knew each others and raised our awareness of other Futurist groups around the area. In the meeting, we have a consent that we are more of a action-ba | Jack Ha | Sep 26, 2007 |
| See you tonight at Prolific Oven at 7pm - Hello all, This is Jack Ha, your organizer of tonight's meetup group. This is my second month after being the organizer of the group after our former organizer Sean. Tonight we have 17 members and guests said "yes". It shou | Jack Ha | Aug 23, 2007 |
| Re: [future-53] Palo Alto Future Meetup meeting tomorrow - No, sorry. -A On 7/25/07, Jack Ha wrote: > Hi all members, > > I am Jack Ha. I have just been the organizer of this group and will be > meeting you guys the first time tomorrow. When we meet tomorrow, I would > also love t | Andrew | Jul 25, 2007 |
| Updated Palo Alto Future Meetup - Hi all members, It's me again. Please IGNORE THE TIME ON THE PREVIOUS EMAIL. The CORRECT MEETING TIME is 7PM tomorrow at Prolific Oven in Palo Alto! Please look for a Meetup sign. Or ask about the staff there. Thank you, | Jack Ha | Jul 25, 2007 |
| Palo Alto Future Meetup meeting tomorrow - Hi all members, I am Jack Ha. I have just been the organizer of this group and will be meeting you guys the first time tomorrow. When we meet tomorrow, I would also love to learn more about yours interests in the topic, so I can plan on the top | Jack Ha | Jul 25, 2007 |
| Sean stepping down as the Organizer of the Palo Alto Future Meetup - Folks, I'd like to focus on other things, but continue to participate in these events. For that reason, I've decided to step down as the organizer. If you are interesting in being the organizer for the Palo Alto Future Meetup... please do. | Sean | May 29, 2007 |
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PLEASE RSVP FOR The Palo Alto Future May Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://future.meetup.com/53/calendar/5714994/ When: Thursday, May 24
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Sean | May 18, 2007 |
| CANCELED: The Palo Alto Future April Meetup - CANCELING DUE TO NOT HAVING ENOUGH ATTENDEES THIS WEEK. PLEASE PROVIDE SUGGESTIONS FOR DATES AND TOPICS / EVENT IDEAS FOR THE NEXT MEETING. CANCELED: The Palo Alto Future Apri | Sean | Apr 26, 2007 |
| RE: [future-53] PLEASE RSVP - PA Future Meetup Tonight! - Preview not available | Ebru | Apr 26, 2007 |
| PLEASE RSVP - PA Future Meetup Tonight! - WE'RE MEETING TONIGHT at 8pm at the Prolific Oven in Palo Alto! Are you going be there? Please indicate YES or NO... Maybe isn't very useful at this point! Thanks! Sean | Sean | Apr 26, 2007 |
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Event details changed: The Palo Alto Future April Meetup - I've updated this event. For more details, see the full listing: http://future.meetup.com/53/calendar/5643097/ When: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 8:00 PM Where: Prolific Ove
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Sean | Apr 6, 2007 |
