Keynote speaker this morning was Ray Kurzweil, he who invented the Kurzweil machine speking on trends in ICT and medicine....
...fascinating stuff, though he takes a relentlessly optimistic view of things. He covered, among other things, the accelerating pace of technical change, biotechnology and nanotechnology and made some predictions for 2010 and 2029. His prophesy of ubiquitous high-bandwidth internet access in 2010 looks a little unlikely from the perspective of the south coast of England, where we can't even get the Freeview digital TV we used to in London, but I dare say he's right.
Then to a further meeting on open access. Off in a minute to visit the National Library of Medicine, of which more later.