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Amazon acquires Eero – why that is that worrying?
Amazon has acquired Eero, the mesh-Wifi company. What is mesh-Wifi? https://youtu.be/tOcvNoEOyMQ The Verge has some critical reflections on why this is worrying. The concerns are...
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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 world has become obsessed with data: quantifiable and computable data that can be processed, analyzed,...
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Feb 2019
The Troubling Trajectory Of Technological Singularity (good read via Forbes)
We're hurtling towards the future at an alarming pace. As I like to say, humanity will change more in the next two decades than it...
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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 when the world's most famous brand catchcry was ‘Just Do It' from Nike? Those days...
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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 Tech…” is the opening sentence of a new IBM commercial, a video that pens an...
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 The Next Web titled, ‘AI is incredibly smart, but it will never match human creativity'....
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 my book Technology vs Humanity, entitled “Automating Society”. This chapter includes questions such as, ‘what is...
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) and how that may become the next big tech platform. He calls it the “Mirrorworld”,...
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 to personalize ads is unethical. And a further 59% believe that personalization to create tailored...
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 the past 3 months: technology vs humanity, exponential change, digital ethics, leadership and .. how...
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 backer Sam Altman to put artificial intelligence on a new, more open course. They cofounded...
18
Feb 2019
Report warns of “ominous” decline of democracy around the world
“The slow, steady erosion of democracy around the world continued for the 13th consecutive year, according to the latest annual “Freedom in the World” report...
18
Feb 2019
A call for “Soft Ethics” by Professor Luciano Floridi
In this video, Oxford Digital Ethics Lab Professor Luciano Floridi asks an important question “How should we define new digital ethics which includes the benefits of...
15
Feb 2019
New podcast: Gerd Leonhard and Peter Van on Chapter 3 of “Technology vs Humanity: The Megashifts”
A good talk! New podcast on the key themes set forth my book Technology vs Humanity, chapter 3, entitled The Megashifts”. The Megashifts include digitisation, automation, datafication, virtualisation,...
14
Feb 2019
Team Human vs Team AI: when Rushkoff meets Morozov
Guest post by The Futures Agency curator Peter Van Rushkoff has a new book – “Team Human” – and confronts the promises of artificial intelligence...
13
Feb 2019
The age of surveillance capitalism: are we pawns or chess-players?
This post was co-produced with Peter Van Both The Guardian and The Baffler published a book review of Zuboff's latest book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”....
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Feb 2019
Is Facebook unethical by design? A great case study on digital ethics, power, responsibility and regulation (via Monday Note)
(This is a guest post by The Futures Agency curator Peter Van) In Facebook’s Provocations of the Week, Frederic Filloux is presenting a wide-ranging discussion...
