I didn't try copy/paste before. I now tried Wei's fragment, and copying out of "Th" (as well as search) doesn't work in Foxit Reader 2.3.2923 (I got "Te tiebreaker" instead of "The tiebreaker").
I tried opening the PDF in Google Chrome (17.0.963.66 m/win32 XP) using its in-built viewer, and it doesn't open at all.
I didn't try copy/paste before. I now tried Wei's fragment, and copying out of "Th" (as well as search) doesn't work in Foxit Reader 2.3.2923 (I got "Te tiebreaker" instead of "The tiebreaker").
2.3? Wow. I'm on Foxit Reader 5.4.1. Perhaps that's what is making the difficulties?
Here is a short new publication from the Singularity Institute, on the 2-day workshop that followed Singularity Summit 2011.
Note the new publication design. We are currently porting our earlier publications to this template, too.