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The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years and was one of the early investors in Facebook. He has just published his new...
The future of work is moving towards an availability economy.
Slate has a great post about the future of work – an adapted excerpt from Alex Rosenblat’s latest book Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules...
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Mar 2019
Coders’ Primal Urge to Kill Inefficiency—Everywhere (Must-read via Wired.com)
In this must-read WIRED story by the fabulous Clive Thompson who is also introducing his new book here we are encountering the coders' tyranny of efficiency. “It’s...
20
Mar 2019
Are robots the new class of social actors?
The Atlantic published an excellent article last week titled “How AI will Rewire Us”. The author comments on a number of lab experiments where people...
20
Mar 2019
Humanity is on ‘the highway to digital dictatorship’, says Yuval Noah Harari (but it’s not inevitable)
“Well, none of this is inevitable,” he says, suddenly eager to sound a note of optimism. “We can do things on the level of global...
19
Mar 2019
Review: Italian edition of ‘Technology vs Humanity’
Ecco perché la tecnologia cambierà radicalmente le nostre vite Il futurologo Gerd Leonhard: “Siamo in uno snodo cruciale nell’evoluzione tecnologica. Il cambiamento diventerà esponenziale, inevitabile...
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Mar 2019
New Podcast! Chapter 7: The Digital Obesity Pandemic
Here is our latest podcast based on Chapter 7 of Gerd's best-selling book Technology vs Humanity (Now available in 11 languages!) This week Peter and I covered...
18
Mar 2019
Kevin Kelly asks, is asking a good question the last job a machine will learn to do?
We really loved this great quote by Kevin Kelly in his book, The Inevitable: “A good question is not concerned with a correct answer....
17
Mar 2019
Read Gerd’s latest piece for Forbes
Originally published on February 28, 2019, via Forbes.com In 2016, I published my new best-selling book called Technology Vs. Humanity. The title alone sparked alarmed discussions....
16
Mar 2019
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love: a rather scary read via Medium
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love was a great think piece from Medium this week: “By 2020, DNA dating and VR dating will remove...
15
Mar 2019
Cats and guacamole: a reflection on platform loyalty and information fiduciaries.
Jonathan Zittrain, Founder of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, talks about a platform’s core purpose at EnlightED2019. The conference was curated by Telefonica around the...
15
Mar 2019
The concept of the Ethical Vendor: accountable, auditable and ethical
Last week, Niccolo Mejia shared in interesting view of the usage of facial recognition in financial applications. He listed three categories: Verifying identity for loan...
13
Mar 2019
From efficiency to human agency: Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard on AI
Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard had a good chat last week. It was a wide-ranging conversation on AI and its potential dangers to humanity – so I...
13
Mar 2019
Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics
Derek Lidow writes a great piece for Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics. Here's an excerpt: “Expectations for technology startups...
12
Mar 2019
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
“The idea is to allow people to use their thoughts to navigate intuitively through augmented reality—the neuro-driven version of the world recently described by Kevin...
12
Mar 2019
“Dear Tech Company”: A nice counter-narrative to IBM’s promotional video
On 12 Feb 2019, IBM published a new video advertisement “Dear Tech, An Open Letter to the Industry” asking what kind of tech company does the...
11
Mar 2019
2001: A Space Odyssey gets the Google makeover
2001: A Space Odyssey is a much-loved favorite when it comes to sci-fi fantasy movies. In fact, it's one of my own personal favorites. And...
10
Mar 2019
How AI will rewire us (good read via TheAtlantic)
I like AI discussions that focus on humans or human behaviour. This week, I really enjoyed Nicholas A. Christakis's piece, ‘How AI Will Rewire Us'...
