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Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life (good read via The New Yorker)
“Cities struggling to keep subways and buses running are being ...
Gerd’s Digital Ethics newsletter #6 has been published: AI versus human creativity, big tech engages with ethics… and more
Read the latest edition here (and yes… sign up!) Welcome ...
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Feb 2019
Complete video and audio recordings of my keynote at BuildingTheFuture Lisbon January 2019: technology and humanity – the future
This is the complete recording of my keynote of the ...
25
Feb 2019
A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist (Sean Dorrance Kelly) #manmachine
Sean Dorrance Kelly is a philosophy professor at Harvard and ...
24
Feb 2019
No sugarcoating – this is Surveillance (says Apple CEO Tim Cook at an EU commission event)
Extract from Tim Cook's keynote address to the European Parliament ...
23
Feb 2019
AI is supervised learning (says Ginni Rometty, CEO IBM)
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty explains the benefits of Watson and ...
23
Feb 2019
Amazon acquires Eero – why that is that worrying?
Amazon has acquired Eero, the mesh-Wifi company. What is mesh-Wifi? ...
23
Feb 2019
Please sign up for my Digital Ethics newsletter – this is the #1 technology topic in 2019
Go here to read the latest edition and sign up ...
23
Feb 2019
Machines are Quanta, Humans have Qualia: what makes us unique as human beings?
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan The ...
22
Feb 2019
The Troubling Trajectory Of Technological Singularity (good read via Forbes)
We're hurtling towards the future at an alarming pace. As ...
21
Feb 2019
Is a kind of ‘awesome abdication’ our future? Google gets ready to ‘do it’ all for us. #hellven
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan Remember ...
21
Feb 2019
IBM’s open letter to the tech industry (yes, it’s a mixed bag)
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan “Dear ...
21
Feb 2019
AI is incredibly smart, but it will never match human creativity (says Alex Wulff – would love your take on this!)
I really enjoyed a short piece today by Alex Wulff on ...
20
Feb 2019
New podcast! Comments on Chapter 4 of FuturistGerd’s book “Technology vs. Humanity”: The automation of society.
In this week's podcast, we talk through Chapter 4 of ...
20
Feb 2019
Are we living in a Mirrorworld? (asks Kevin Kelly, with reference to Magic Leap)
Kevin Kelly has an interesting new post about AR (Augmented Reality) ...
19
Feb 2019
Only 17% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Ethical, Survey Says (via Forbes)
“A massive majority of consumers believe that using their data ...
19
Feb 2019
Leading into the Future: a compilation with slides on #transformation and #techvshuman
Here is a brand-new compilation of my key themes from ...
18
Feb 2019
The AI Text Generator That’s Too Dangerous to Make Public (great story via Wired.com)
“In 2015, car-and-rocket man Elon Musk joined with influential startup ...
