Abacus, nano-scale 56
Active shields 21
Adelman, Leonard M. 89
Ageing 14, 19-23, 60, 210
AI (artificial intelligence) 6, 7, 16, 36-38, 44-45, 88-89, 92-94,
109-113, 118, 123, 139, 145, 168-175, 193, 207, 210, 220, 227, 230, 237-241
AI one-day delay rule 171
Air Force Office of Scientific Research 9
Algernon 216
Algorithm 81, 87-89, 91-93, 102, 114, 119, 128, 130, 152, 175, 193, 212,=
237
Amish 144
Andreessen, Marc 105
Android bodies 176
`Angels' and `demiurges' (Transcended intelligences) 231-234
Apocalypse 111, 124
Aquarius 252
Arensberg, Conrad 208
Aristotle 193
Artym, Dr Rich 112, 113, 115
Asimov, Isaac 133
Assembler 61, 64, 67-72, 75-77, 80, 82-83, 86, 90, 92, 95, 102-114
Asymptote 2, 13-14
Augustine (Lyle Burkhead) 99-101, 103-106, 109, 111-116, 118, 123, 156, 257
Autarky 214
Automation 193
Backward chaining 107
Baker, Howard 58
Barnes, John 74
Barrow, John 227
Bartlett, Sir Frederic C. 186
Bean Dip Catastrophe 40
Bedford, James 29
Bekenstein Bound 97
Bellamy, Edward 202
Benford, Gregory 188
Berserkers 245
Beyond 222
Big Bang 66, 224, 229-232, 235, 243, 247
Big Crunch 224, 228-231
Big Prime Numbers 47
Bishop, Forrest 100, 114-115, 119, 257
Black box matter compiler 41
Black hole 5, 8, 15, 40, 44, 103, 224, 234, 248, 271
Blackburn, Elizabeth H. 20
Block assemblers 73, 82
Blue goo 80
Body hating 146
Bofinger, David 153-155, 257
Bogosity 46-48, 61
Boot strapping 109
Boser 58-59
Breton, Peter 33
British Telecommunications 16
Buckyballs 33
Burkhead, Lyle 257
Burns, Jonathan 232, 257
Bush-robot 183
Calder, Nigel 79
Calibration 101
Calvin, William H. 6, 168-172, 269
Campbell, Jeremy 186
Carbon 33, 40-41, 65-73, 77, 86, 102, 105, 165, 229, 252
Cargo cult 61-62
Cech, Thomas R. 21
Cellular automata 87
Chalmers, David 160
`Cheap as potatoes' minting 101
Cilantir 98
Clark, John K. (see Pelagius) 86-87, 90, 95, 257
Clarke, Arthur C. 12-13, 32, 74, 107, 184, 244, 256, 269
Clemmensen, Daniel 50-51, 93, 95-100, 127, 140-141, 157, 257
Cloning 4, 5, 23-28, 40, 57, 161-163
COBE 231-232
Colony minds 187
Company law 237
Consentives 203
Copying the brain 148
Cosmic engineering 226
Cox, Earl 6
Cribb, Julian 248
*Crossroads 2015* 49
Cryonics 27-29, 111, 158, 164
Cryptocosmography 245
`Crystal Clear' modelling program 71, 72
Cyberspace 30-31, 50, 111, 140, 147, 180, 243, 269, 271
Cyborg 176
CYC 141
Cyert, Richard and William Jacobs 197, 203
Datavores 188, 242
Davies, Paul 227
de Lange, Titia 21
Death 16-17, 23, 27, 39, 53, 63, 65, 105, 122, 124, 128, 143, 156-159,
163-166, 177, 181, 185-187, 190, 211-214, 218, 223, 234, 241, 250
Deep Blue chess computer 59
Demiurge 230-234, 243-244
Dennett, Daniel 160
Desert Rose Industries 73
Design News poll 94
Designer communities 214
DeSilva, Ashanti 189
Destructive-uploading 166
Deterrence 213
Diamond 33, 41, 64-67, 93, 105, 113-115, 271
Diamondoid 65, 71-72, 78, 101-103, 110, 113-114, 125
*Digital Cacophony* 49
Disassembler 72, 92
DNA computations 89
Dolly, the cloned sheep 23
Downloading 39
Drexler, K. Eric 6, 32-33, 40-42, 47, 51-56, 60-83, 86-87, 90-95, 99,
101-111, 113, 119, 122, 126, 148, 177, 212, 218-219, 249-250, 256-257, 269
Drexler, K. Eric, Chris Peterson and Gayle Pergamit 60
Drunkard's walk 85
Dualism 146, 159
Dunn, Ashley 36
Dyson, Freeman 224, 252
Dyson clouds 252
Early-adopter advantage 181
Edelman, Gerald 172
Egan, Greg 165
Eigler, Don 109
Electromagnetic catapult 253
Escalatorology 228
Esfandiary, F. M. (FM-2030) 7, 13
Ettinger, Robert C. W. 7, 27-29
Exes 238-241, 246, 247
Exponential rates of change 2-3, 13, 30-36, 43-46, 50-51, 70, 83, 94-98,
125-126, 129, 132-134, 156, 191, 220-221
Extropians 7, 97-99, 147, 155, 167, 200, 209-210, 245, 257, 271
Failures of Imagination and Nerve 13
Far Edge Party 40
Fermi Paradox 244
Feynman, Carl 62-63, 75
Feynman, Richard 32, 61-62
Fin-de-si=E8cle hubristic mania (Regis) 7
Fisher, Ronald 163
Flecker, James Elroy 254
FM-2030 7, 13
Fog City 119-121
Fogleman, General Ronald R. 48
Fossel, Michael 21
Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology 61
Freitas, Robert A. Jr 79
Friedman, Milton 201
Fundamentalists 124
Fuzzy logic 6, 193
Galileo 223
Galileo spaceprobe 174
Gender 250
Genes 4, 7-8, 16-19, 84-85, 102, 160-163, 173, 177, 188, 223, 239
Genetic algorithms 83, 87, 152
Genie, AI 73, 90, 95, 100-107, 115=20
Genome 4-5, 16-21, 39-40, 84-85, 143-144, 160-163, 215
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) 196
Gershenfeld, Neil 58
Gibson, William 30
Gigaflop computing 35
Gimzewski, James 55
Gnostics 230
Golem XIV (Lem) 145
Good, I. J. 127
Goop 72, 81-82, 92, 101, 106, 212-214
Gould, Stephen Jay 22, 226
Gray Goo Catastrophe 41-42
Great Filter 100
Great Silence 229
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 196
Group-mind 139, 165
Grove, Andrew 175
Growth 248
Guaranteed income 198, 199, 201-207, 271
*Gulliver's Travails* 49
*Halves and Half Naughts* 49
Hamilton, William 163
Hanson, Robin 100, 142, 157, 175-182, 184, 257, 272
`Hard problem', consciousness 160
Hawking, Stephen 44, 127, 159, 185, 230
Heinlein, Robert A. 208
Henson, Keith 40
Hoyle, Fred 246
Human-equivalent brain 129
Human Genome Project (HUGO) 7
Huxley, Aldous 31
IBM's Almaden Research Center 55
`If this goes on--' 15
Illicit copying 180
Immortality 4, 7, 17, 20-21, 27-29, 39, 105, 138, 143-144, 156, 160, 190,
223, 271
Industrial system 60
Inflexion Point 251
Intelligence 4-6, 141
Intelligence Amplification 143
International Labor Office 248
Internet 7, 13, 40, 43, 49-51, 64, 88, 90, 97, 99, 112, 117, 139-143, 157,
203, 214, 244, 256-257, 272
Iterated Tit-for-Tat 240
Jacking in to cyberspace 140
Japan 198, 206
Jesus Christ 125
JoSH (J. Storrs Hall) 97, 119-122, 184
Jupiter-brains 223, 241
Kant, Immanuel 215
Kasparov, Garry 59
Kelly, Kevin 72, 87
Killer Apps for the mint 112
*King Khan* 49
Language specialisation 173
Lanier, Jaron 209
Leach, Geoff 71
Leary, Timothy 29
Lego toy model of nanomanufacture 83, 91-92
Lehigh University 54
Leitl, Eugene 235, 257
Lem, Stanislaw 119, 145, 246-250
Lenat, Douglas B. 141
Libertarians 200, 201
Limits to growth 132
Linde, Andrei 247
Lipton, Richard J. 89
Longevity 4, 17-21, 29, 39, 54, 124, 160, 253
Machado, Romana 245
Malthusian gloom 153
Market 10, 38, 45, 53, 101, 104, 106, 131, 175, 194, 196, 200-202, 214,
240, 248, 254, 271
*Marooned in Realtime* (Vinge) 124, 131, 135, 271
Massey radio lectures, cancelled 199
*Max Headroom* 187
McCarthy, Thomas 210-215, 257
McKenna, Terence 156
Memetic mentalities 188
Merkle, Ralph 6, 28, 32-33, 54-56, 62-68, 75-76, 94, 95, 101-102, 107,
257, 272
Midgley, Mary 227
Milburn, Gerard 57
Millennial Foundation 252, 253
Millennial hysteria 249
Mind of a Power 221
Minting (Molecular Nanotechnology, or MNT) 4-6, 28-32, 37-42, 47, 50-52,
54-56, 59-65, 64, 67-71, 73-83, 86-119, 122-135, 143, 148-149, 156-158,
161, 165, 167, 177, 179, 182-193, 204, 207-216, 219, 230, 236, 241, 249,
257, 269, 271
Modular universal assemblers or `Overtools' 114
Molecular building-blocks (MBBs) 109
Molecular `tape' memory storage 86
Molhant, Norman 151
Moore's Law 34-38, 47-48, 175, 191-192, 220
Moravec, Hans 6, 30, 33-38, 58, 177, 182 187, 191, 207, 235-243, 257, 270
More, Max 7, 147, 155
Mortality 16, 250
Mr. Spock 240
Mr. Peabody 61
Mysterians 160
Nano assembler 184
Nano black boxes 60
Nanofacture 65, 67, 73, 77, 79, 90, 111, 113
*Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation* (see
Drexler, Eric) 75
Nanotechnology (see Minting)
`Nanotopia' 62
NASA 1, 4, 6, 78-79, 125, 174, 188, 272
Near infinite speeds by 1982 14
Near Death Experience 159
Nematode worm genome and induced longevity 17
Neo Luddites 170
Neumann, John von 127
Neural net 1, 44, 145, 148, 151-152, 157, 165
Neuron star 187, 241
New Age 6, 14, 31, 126, 156
Ng, Yew Kwang 195
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) 58
Ocean thermal energy converter (OTEC) 252
Omega Point 226-231, 234-235
Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development 205
Partials 181
Paul, Gregory S. and Earl Cox 6, 191, 270
Pelagius (John K. Clark) 99-105, 123, 167, 176, 257
Penrose, Roger 44, 65, 158, 228, 270
Pension funds 236
Personal identity 242
Petaflop computing 110, 129, 150, 158, 220
Peterson, Chris and Gayle Pergamit 73
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) 244
Pirate upload copies 179
`Playing God' 7, 172
*Pollyanna Triumphant* 42
Porter, Mitchell 223, 231, 235, 242, 251, 257, 272
Posthumans 1-2, 6, 97, 144-145, 153-156, 168, 219-226, 253-254
Potlatching 117
Poverty 193
Powers, posthuman 219, 247-248
Pre-aged clone 26
Prediction Horizon 251
Prigogine, Ilya 233
Promethean technology 29
Puri, Shaifali 105
Quantum theory 5, 8, 38, 44, 47, 56-59, 63, 76, 84, 89, 158-159, 227, 229,
233, 243, 270
Quate, Calvin 55
Qubits 57
Rand, Ayn 97
Rapture, Christian myth of 2, 124-125, 190, 216
Ray, Tom 87
Re-cycling 249
Rebek, Dr Julius 75
Receding Spike 190
Redefining Progress 196
Regis, Ed 7, 39-41, 108, 256
Replicating Systems Concepts Team (NASA) 79
Resurrection 111
Rock, Arthur 36
Rocket engine 70
Rod logic 56
Roslin Institute 23
Russia, environmental despoliation in 248
Sagan, Carl 225, 254
Saltwater pipeline, nano-constructed 112
Same-sex marriage 178
San Diego Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery 42
Sandberg, Anders 152, 155, 234-235, 250-251, 257, 272
Sandia National Laboratory, USA 35
Santa Claus Machines 78-80, 101, 253
Santamaria, B. A. 205
Sarin gas 90
Savage, Marshall T. 215, 252-254
Schewe, Phillip F. 55
*Sci.nanotech* Usenet newsgroup 97, 119
*Scientific American* 35, 61-64, 95
Searle, John 158, 166
Seed, nano 71, 82
Selfish genes 161
Selfish signal 232
Silicon Vale (uploading) 177
Simulator sickness 31
Singularity 2, and passim
Smart paint 52-54
Software 108, 112, 116, 118, 128, 130, 139-141, 152, 154, 158, 172-175,
180, 182, 224
Spike 2-5, and passim
Spiked civilisations, extraterrestrial 229
Spontaneous self-assembly 84
Square root of NOT 57
Stakeholders 236
Starships 252
Stein, Ben 55
Stephenson, Neal 7
Sterling, Bruce 7
Stewards (vs. Extropians) 209
Stine, G. Harry 13-17, 47-48, 95, 153, 220
Stix, Gary 61-65, 75, 95, 257, 271
STM (Scanning Tunnelling Microscope) 33, 55, 69, 107-108
Stochastic (random) emergent order 88
String theory 229
Stross, Charles 231, 257
`SuperIntelligence Dream' scenario 140
Superintelligences (SI) 30, 96, 140-143, 151, 169-171, 230-231, 238
`swarm' mechanism 72
Sweat shops 194
Synapse 68, 98, 129, 152
Tacit knowledge 80, 90
Taylor, Theodore 78
Technology 6, 16-17, 23
Telomere 19-21, 25
Ten levels of nano-assembly 83
Teraflop computing 35-36, 110, 129, 150, 158, 164, 220
Terraforming planets 135, 252
Tetzeli, Rick 105
Theobald, Robert 196, 199-205, 248, 257, 271
`There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' (Feynman) 62
Thresholds 50
Throop, Wayne 154, 257
Tierra artifical life 88, 152
Tinkerbells (upload androids) 182-186
Tipler, Frank 224-228, 230-231, 233-235, 244, 252-253, 269, 271
Toffler, Alvin 98
Transcension 251
Transhumans 1, 6-7, 18, 29, 97, 99, 145-146, 152, 155, 168, 187, 190,
216-219, 223, 229, 241-242, 251, 253, 257, 271
Trend analysis 5, 9, 11-16, 33, 43, 45, 153, 155, 271
Tribalism 237
Ulam, Stanislaw 127
Ultra intelligence 127
*Unbounding the Future* (Drexler, et al.) 73
Upload families 179
Upload Lilliputians 182
Upload population explosion 178
Uploading 5, 39, 98, 103, 111, 119, 146-187, 219-222, 237-238, 241-242,
246, 251-253
US Air Force trend study (1953) 12
US Air Force trend study (1996) 48
Utility Fog 119-120, 184, 241
Utopia 16, 37, 80, 90, 98-101, 143-144, 153, 190, 192, 202, 208, 218, 223,
236, 252
Very Fast Evolution Machine 230
Vinge, Vernor 1, 5-6, 30, 42-45, 103, 124-128, 130-132, 135-137, 139-140,
142, 144, 152-155, 158, 165-166, 168, 190, 219, 256, 271
Virtual reality (VR) 31-32, 40, 49, 121, 147, 150, 161-162, 176-177, 190,
208-209, 253, 271
Voyager space probe 174, 254
Wakfer, Paul 158, 218, 257
Wallace, Richard 37
War, causes of 211
Warrior culture 212
Wealth 195
Wilmut, Ian 23
*Wired* magazine 72
Witham, Stephen 244-245, 246
Work, end of paid 193
Workalike AIs 169-170
World Wide Web 64
X ray synchrotrons 38
Yudkowsky, Eliezer S. 189, 216-222, 235, 257, 272
*Zaibatsu* 49
Zinsmeister, Karl 195