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Hilarious video compilation: they (the robots) took our jobs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBYLIUqmIs Found via TheNextWeb and Andrew Keen (be sure to look at the links !!) I’m not sure if it’s really good or bad news. Both,...
Here are my best-of-2015 slides featuring the most important memes from my 80+ talks – all in one huge slideshare deck!
The end of the year is always a good time to review and reflect upon what worked well, and what did not, so here are those slides,...
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Dec 2015
Techno-social engineering: will humans become ‘pervasively programmable’? Scott Allan Morrison via Boing Boing
“Scott Allan Morrison: There would be nothing inherently wrong with this if we could be absolutely certain the companies that control this technology will act...
27
Dec 2015
Marc Andreessen on the IoT: ‘In 20 years, every physical item will have a chip implanted in it’
I tend to agree but don't know if this world will be heaven or hell - what to you think ? “Andreessen is a fierce...
26
Dec 2015
The US government vs Apple and Google’s: the smartphone encryption discussion
“The US government and police officials are in the midst of a misleading PR offensive to try to scare Americans into believing encrypted cellphones are somehow a...
19
Dec 2015
What the world will be like in 2045, according to DARPA’s top scientists (via business insider)
I tend to agree on these predictions - but I really worry about all these changes being driving by the military on the one side,...
17
Dec 2015
Europe Approves Tough New Data Protection Rules – NYTimes.com. The US-EU canyon is widening.
I think this is a very important step in the right direction - yet it will most certainly deepen the gulf between Europe and the...
17
Dec 2015
Open AI: An effort to democratize artificial intelligence research? Some key points
““If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory...
15
Dec 2015
You’re Only Human, But Your Kids Could Be So Much More – says Paul Knoepfler (Wired)
“I mean a designer baby. You would be literally designing and producing a new type of baby via the same sort of technology that is...
07
Dec 2015
How to understand the state of carbon consumption (short video via the Economist)
Nice video via The Economist Films China and India are perceived to be the worst emitters of carbon dioxide. But much changes when adjustments are...
05
Dec 2015
IBM’s global C-Suite Study 2015. Key message: form your own futures squad!
IBM just published their 2015 global C-Suite study – and it points clearly in one direction: companies and their leaders are spending more time and resources on...
05
Dec 2015
Media release: meet Futurist Gerd Leonhard in Malta 1/15/2016: Economist Gala Dinner Keynote
What is the Future of Humanity in a World of Exponential Technological Change? The internationally renowned Futurist, Author and Speaker Gerd Leonhard has been confirmed...
04
Dec 2015
The Singularity, Virtual Immortality and Consciousness: Simulation is not duplication (via Robert Lawrence Kuhn)
Totally spot-on !!“The one mistake we must avoid,” Searle cautioned, “is supposing that if you simulate it, you duplicate it. A deep mistake embedded in...
