Picture in http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/suzanne-gildert-on-quantum-computing-in-teleplace-september-4/ Watch the talk before saying crooks?

Go to the source http://telexlr8.blip.tv/file/4083093/ open the Files and Links box in the right column and download the original .mp4 video file.

I was surprised to hear my voice during a video conference, because I was hot speaking! Somebody in the audience had started playing a video clip he had recorded a few minutes before.

@mcgrew - here is Suzanne's blog: http://physicsandcake.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/online-seminar-on-quantum-computing/#comments in the comments she says she will post the slides of the presentation.

@gandhi re added value of avatar on virtual stage: this is an online talk with a participative audience in realtime telepresence. The second half of the video shows a very lively Q/A session and discussion, with a lot of people asking a lot of questions.

It is a race against time. Old resources are depleted, and new resources are developed. Technology is the driver of both these trends - the question is whether we will develop new sustainable energy resources before exhausting oil. Nuclear energy is available already, solar - wind - other alternative energies are already available as technologies, but not yet fully deployed. It is a race between two trends, we will see which one wins. Transhumanists bet on technology's capability to improve our lives and solve many of the current problems of the world, and on our own capability to develop such technologies in time.