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Regular Meetings are Saturdays from 9:30-11:30 AM Directions

Knights of Columbus Building - Meeting Room, 1114 American Blvd West, Bloomington, MN

The Following has been posted on Meetup for Oct 26 2013

Title: Zero Sum Applied to Progress, Mortals and Politics; given time, Innovation will be discussed

Abstract:

Progress is not a zero sum game - 19 minutes

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_wright_on_optimism.html

Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and how we can use it to help save humanity today. The best-selling author of "Nonzero," "The Moral Animal" and "The Evolution of God," Robert Wright draws on his wide-ranging knowledge of science, religion, psychology, history and politics to figure out what makes humanity tick -- and what makes us moral.

Discussion

Milton Friedman - The Zero-Sum Political Game - Nine minutes

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OoSzrgMNx8s

Politics does not function as a zero sum activities, like economics, politicians seeks rewards.

Given time, then following will be discussed

The death of innovation, the end of growth -12 minutes

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_gordon_the_death_of_innovation_the_end_of_growth.html

The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic debt and growing inequality, which could move the US into a period of stasis we can't innovate our way out of. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Erik Brynjolfsson. Robert J. Gordon is among the most influential macroeconomists in the world. And the big picture he sees is not altogether rosy.

Discussion

The key to growth? Race with the machines innovation not dead - 11 minutes

http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_brynjolfsson_the_key_to_growth_race_em_with_em_the_machines.html

As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson -- it’s simply the growing pains of a radically reorganized economy. A riveting case for why big innovations are ahead of us … if we think of computers as our teammates. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Robert Gordon.

Erik Brynjolfsson examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and employment.

Discussion

The Following has been posted on Meetup

Meetup Message from: Hank Lederer, Member of Minnesota Futurists

This coming Saturday, Oct. 19th, I'll present a video of a talk from Gustavus' recent Nobel conf. on particle physics

This presentation talks about CERN's LHC and it's findings and future possible information that we hope to gain when it starts up again in a year or so. This video lasts about an hour.

Call it the Future of the String Theory, the Multiverse and Symmetry. Plus talk of dark matter and dark energy.

Hank Lederer will show video on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presentation from the last Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter MN. The speaker is Tara Shears, Ph. D. Tara has worked on The Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP), the Collector Detector collider at Fermilab (CDF) and the LHC at CERN.

Tara Shears, a particle physicist, started her career investigating the behavior of fundamental particles and forces for the OPAL experiment at CERN (the European organization for nuclear research), in Geneva, Switzerland. Her experiments now center on researching the properties of bottom quarks using hadron colliders, testing the Standard Model theory in the electroweak sector, and seeking answers for why there’s so little antimatter in the universe."

Discussion will follow the video.

https://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2013/

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Topics Pending for 2012

Future schedule work in progress

Roundtable: Tech Breakthrough Forecasts for 2015-2020

See topics awaiting dates above.

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