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The age of AI surveillance is here (via QZ.com – made me think)
“Facial recognition in still images and video is already seeping into the real world. Baidu is starting a program where facial recognition is used instead...
A Country of Fear and Courage: Learnings from Two Years in America – Good SPIEGEL ONLINE story
“Fear, of course, is nothing new in America. It's a country that has always believed that the apocalypse is somehow just around the corner. But...
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Aug 2017
Why Mercedes’ decision to let its self-driving cars kill pedestrians is probably the right thing to do (says Bloomberg )
In an interview with Car and Driver, the manager of driver assistance systems at Mercedes-Benz Christoph von Hugo has revealed that the company's future autonomous...
27
Aug 2017
Anything that can be digitised or automated, will be – but anything that cannot will become extremely valuable (new gif)
Download the .mov file: anything digitized or not useless humans vs androrithms final Read more about Androrithms (that which cannot be digitised) ... Read...
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Aug 2017
Algorithms outdo us. But we still prefer human fallibility | Rafael Behr
“It is the zone of ambiguity and imprecision whose decline Jacobson laments when he warns that Twitter reduces us to a world of statement: “There...
24
Aug 2017
Help! My Son Confuses Me With Amazon’s Alexa (TIME read)
“Using a voice assistant to run your home feels beamed-in-from-Star Trek cool, making mundane actions magical. You can voice-toggle your lighting, conjure your favorite Beatles'...
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Aug 2017
New video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard in conversation with AT&T’s John Donovan (AT&T Shape LA)
John Donovan (AT&T's Chief Strategy Officer and Group President) and me had a pretty cool chat about technology, connectivity, media, creativity and humanity – check it...
23
Aug 2017
Do More! What Amazon Teaches Us About Robots and the “Jobless Future”
“This is the master design pattern for applying technology: Do more. Do things that were previously unimaginable.”Do More! What Amazon Teaches Us About Robots and...
22
Aug 2017
Automation may take our jobs—but it’ll restore our humanity (says x.ai CEO)
“Our very human futureOne implication of all this is that for humans to succeed in the AI-powered future, we need to double down on our...
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Aug 2017
How Technology Might Get Out of Control (about the Nash equilibrium’s demise?)
“People use laws, social norms and international agreements to reap the benefits of technology while minimizing undesirable things like environmental damage. In aiming to find...
16
Aug 2017
Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree | Edge.org – some great morsels from Rory Sutherland
“There's a rather lovely company in the UK that pays people who are housebound—whether for medical reasons, or are caregivers—to handwrite envelopes and letters. You...
13
Aug 2017
The key to jobs in the future is not college but compassion – good read
“the truth is, only a tiny percentage of people in the post-industrial world will ever end up working in software engineering, biotechnology or advanced manufacturing....
12
Aug 2017
Why the Singularity is certain to happen in my own lifetime, and how it matters (Futurist/Humanist Gerd Leonhard)
I recently came to an important realisation: I will most likely see the so-called Singularity happen in my own lifetime. I’m 56, and I believe...
11
Aug 2017
Join me for the Euroforum Future Tech & Trends Seminar GDI Zürich Nov 24 2017 (in German) *Updated
Update: 25. August 2017 Hier ist ein kurzer Teaser-Podcast über diesen Event:) FUTURE TECH & TRENDS Mit Futurist Gerd Leonhard JETZT ANMELDEN BROSCHÜRE ANFORDERN FUTURIZE YOUR...
11
Aug 2017
This is how Big Oil will die – NewCo Shift (must read)
“It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction.The steel made up the Keystone XL pipeline, finally completed in...
05
Aug 2017
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Some serious food for thought via The Atlantic
“a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of...
04
Aug 2017
Human ingenuity will be the genesis for IoT prosperity: thoughtful piece by Jeanne Beliveau-Dunne (Cisco)
“As business leaders, we must think beyond the fiscal bottom line and technological advances in products and services and ask ourselves, how will IoT affect...
03
Aug 2017
This piece really made me think: the end of humanity as we know it’s ‘coming in 2045’ (and Google is preparing for it)
“What is the singularity?In maths/physics, the singularity is the point at which a function takes an infinite value because it’s incomprehensibly large.The technological singularity, as...
