Like Google.org, which Larry Brilliant ultimately walked away from, this has token money from Google and is a really great idea badly funded. It has Vint Cerf and Ray Kurzweil, and it claims to be seriously interested in ensuring that we understand the future impacts of technologies–something of a contrast to the Kurzweil-Spivak “technology ubber alles” views expoused in book-length form.
We have added this to our Professional Sites, and will await further developments.