DRAFT:
This is a little story for
BarryPtolemy, the maker of the Film
TranscendentMan: Soon after the
MauerFall, a smart
ProFessor called
KurtBiedenkopf came from West-
DeutschLand to the
FreistaatSachsen and became
PrimeMinister of this
BundesLand. He noticed all the smart
MiNd's among his
CitiZens and proposed that they could do
MicroElectronics. He called it
SiliconSaxony and for many years he advocated his "
LightHouse"-strategy in order to concentrate the
MicroElectronics industry in the
CityOfDresden. One day, after visiting
IkeaDresden,
KurtBiedenkopf lost his
AmbItio'ns to reign
SiliconSaxony and retired to his villa in the nearby city of
RadeBeul, where he is now living in his cheap
IkEa furniture and
ProBab'ly writing his
AutoBiografie. In the beginning of 2009,
RainerWasserfuhr visited an old friend at
QiMonda, which was one of the
LightHouse ProJect's. With once 13,000 employees and one of the most advanced. The friend showed him the
CuttingEdge DDR3-RAM chips. However, it was one last days for
QiMonda: most of them lost their jobs. In the summer of 2008,
RainerWasserfuhr followed the media coverage of the
SingularitySummit2008. On other side of the
AtlanticOcean he noticed almost 1-2 "#ss08"-tweets per minute. However, the resonance in the german and european
TwittEr-sphere was almost inexistant (except
SiggiBecker). This surprised
RainerWasserfuhr quite a lot: All those smart people around him, who actually __did__ the work that made
MooresLaw possible for many years now, had no time to look a little bit further into the future. Not knowing or ignoring long term trends with both tremendous opportunities like
ImMortal'ity or
ExPo'nential
IntelligenceAugmentation and
ExistentialRisk's like un-
FriendlyAi. Fortunately, in
RalfLippold and
RainerWasserfuhr met and decided to turn around the wheel in the
CityOfDresden. By
ZuFall,
RalfLippold found a
BeautiFul former
RoundHouse in the
CityOfDresden, that was unused for many years now: <>
They thought that this
LockSchuppen could be the prefect place to host a
ThinkTank for
TheSingularity. They watched
TranscendentMan. They thought about the beautiful
RundKino. <>
You can even follow it on [
TwittEr:Rundkino]. We propose to
BarryPtolemy to
celebrate the premiere of TranscendentMan in the CityOfDresden, even better in SingularSaxony, DeutschLand, or EurOpa to VisitTheLockSchuppen and to bring with him RayKurzweil to let him give the KeyNote to the SingularSummitEurope. We will
ReCommend it to our friends ;)