Kurzweil is generally recognized as a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, due to his stances on life extension technologies, his efforts to forecast future advances in technology, and his interest in the concept of the technological singularity.

Some groups, called Singularitarians, who advocate what might be defined as a peaceful ( non-violent, non-invasive, non-coercive ) cybernetic revolt known as a ' technological singularity ', argue that it is in humanity's best interests to bring about such an event, as long as it can be ensured that the event would be beneficial.

Communists advocate that the social ownership of means of production is just what is necessary for technological progress not resulting in more unemployment but in easing of the burden of work for all.

The residents of Tiamat are split into two clans: " Winters " who advocate technological progress and trade with offworlders, and " Summers " who depend on their folk traditions and rigid social distinctions to survive on this marginal planet.

Smart is the principal advocate of the concept of “ STEM compression ,” ( formerly " MEST compression ") the idea that the most ( ostensibly ) complex of the universe ’ s extant systems at any time ( galaxies, stars, habitable planets, living systems, and now technological systems ) use progressively less space, time, energy and matter (“ STEM ”) to create the next level of complexity in their evolutionary development.

Gellar is an active advocate for various charities, including breast cancer research, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity and CARE, Of her charitable pursuits, she says, " I started because my mother taught me a long time ago that even when you have nothing, there's ways to give back.

* May 31 – Timothy Leary, American writer, psychologist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use ( b. 1920 )

* June 25 – The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City to research and advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino community issues.

It has drawn criticism by those who advocate " back to basics " pedagogy or reading instruction because whole language is based on a limited body of scientific research .< ref >

Adams and the National Reading Panel advocate for a comprehensive reading program that includes several different sub-skills, based on scientific research.

That perception shifted as White and other prominent HIV-infected people, such as Magic Johnson, Arthur Ashe, the Ray brothers and Kimberly Bergalis, appeared in the media to advocate for more AIDS research and public education to address the epidemic.

ISARC has a shared hope to mobilize, facilitate, and empower diverse faith communities to research, educate and advocate for public policy for the elimination of poverty in Ontario.

) Newton-John recovered and since became a tireless advocate for breast cancer research and other health issues.

At the end of World War II, the NAS ( National Academy of Sciences ) began to advocate better research and development of prosthetics.

* Association of Children ’ s Orthotic-Prosthetic Clinics – The organization was started in 1950s to advocate research and development of children ’ s prosthetics.

It is designed to inform elected officials and the public, serve on committees, research issues, develop educational programs and advocate for sound environmental policies.

The participant-observer approach to the paranormal has gained increased visibility and popularity through reality television programs like Ghost Hunters, and the formation of independent ghost hunting groups that advocate immersive research at alleged paranormal locations.

For example, they are more likely to advocate government spending for environmental protection, AIDS or cancer research, and the arts but are less likely to support raising taxes on the rich, high defense spending, or Keynesian economic policies in general.

mixed publicity stunts ( such as rolling a plastic " crack " down Glen Canyon Dam ) with far-reaching wilderness proposals that reportedly went beyond what mainstream environmental groups were willing to advocate ( with conservation biology research from a biocentric perspective ).

The group's mission is non-profit investigative research and journalism to expose corporate malfeasance and to advocate for multinational corporate accountability and transparency.

He has been a leading advocate for design and technology innovation focused on the total customer experience and the application of operations research.

As First Lady and after, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, perhaps most prominently for mental health research.

* Mike Grgich-winemaker advocate of Zinfandel who funded genetic research

Fitch became a safety advocate and began research into automotive safety, some of which have advanced into motorsport.

AUT University promotes itself as an advocate of innovative approaches to teaching, learning and research.

Students engage in research, preparation of issue position papers, legislative proposal packets and persuasive speaking to advocate their issues before legislative committee meetings and one-on-one interaction with members of the Youth General Assembly.

The level of support for Eugenics research by the Nazis prompted an American Eugenics advocate to seek an expansion of the American program, with the complaint that " the Germans are beating us at our own game ".

In the House, Cramer was a tireless supporter of the International Space Station and a leading advocate for spending increases in missile defense, as Huntsville has long been a center for research and development of these two projects, as Redstone Arsenal — located in the district — is home of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command ( AMCOM ) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Following this, Dougherty went on to become a highly visible advocate and educator of PDT, sharing his research with other clinics in the USA and overseas, In 1986 he formed the International Photodynamic Association.

The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability in Africa and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence.

They advocate learning through the development of meaningful conceptual thinking and judgement by means of a directed reading list of the profound, aesthetic, and meaningful great books of the Western canon.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

" He did not advocate a community of goods or assert collective ownership as is embraced in communism, but his belief that individuals ought to share with those in need was influential on the later development of anarchist communism.

Rousseau was one of the first to advocate developmentally appropriate education ; and his description of the stages of child development mirrors his conception of the evolution of culture.

* In the essay " Homesteading the Noosphere ", programmer and advocate Eric S. Raymond uses the concept in discussing the social workings of open-source software development.

Intelligent design advocate Michael Behe proposed a development of Paley's watch analogy in which he argued in favour of intelligent design.

He was one of the first medieval authors to advocate a form of church / state separation, and was important for the early development of the notion of property rights.

To advocate an aggressive development program, Ernest Lawrence and Luis Alvarez came to Los Alamos, where they conferred with Norris Bradbury, the laboratory director, and with George Gamow, Edward Teller, and Ulam.

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky ( born September 11, 1979 ) is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for the development of friendly artificial intelligence and the understanding of a possible future singularity.

* Frank Hamilton Short, conservationist and advocate for states ' rights and private development of natural resources in the early 20th century ( born in Shelby County in 1862 )

As far as maritime air power was concerned, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, an advocate of the aircraft in military affairs, pushed for development.

The IRC ’ s mission is to provide emergency relief, post-conflict development and resettlement services ; to work for the protection of human rights ; and to advocate for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression.

He was a strenuous advocate of ecclesiastical control in elementary education, and an opponent of the new school of higher biblical criticism, though so far an evolutionist as to believe in growth and development as applied to the history of nations.

These project management methodologies are based on the uncertainty of developing a new software system and advocate smaller, incremental development cycles.

She became a leader in the feminist movement, an advocate of women's suffrage and an important influence on the development of La Follette's ideas.

As Prime Minister, he was an advocate of third-world development and a prominent international activist for causes such as the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the interests of Bosnians in the 1990s Balkans conflict.

He was also a passionate advocate for increasing development aid to Africa and the developing nations.

As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.

Additional support came from the Massachusetts Forestry Association's initiative to advocate for the establishment of a state park system, and to make the case point, fight inappropriate development of the state's highest peak, Mount Greylock.

The National Front advocate high economic and educational development of Albanians as well as strengthening the legal basis of the Albanian state, institutions, and for the prosperity of the country and improvement of the material culture of the Albanian people.