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| | Cato Conference: Sponsors Bionomics Conference |
 | | The 5th Annual Bionomics Conference, held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, was the first one cosponsored by the Cato Institute and Forbes ASAP, along with the founding sponsor, the Bionomics Institute. |
 | | Physicist and science fiction author Gregory Benford discussed inexpensive ways to deal with the problem of global warming, if it turns out to be a problem, and other ways that technology can improve our lives in the 21st century. |
 | | Bionomic insights were provided by Michael Rothschild, author of Bionomics: The Economy as Ecosystem, in his opening remarks, and by other speakers such as Andrew Leonard, author of Bots: The Origin of a New Species, and George Dyson, author of Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. |
| www.cato.org /pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-7.html (657 words) |
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