

By Cezar Turin (thanks Cezar!) “Para olhar à frente quebrando o paradigma da visão linear sugiro ver também o excelente vídeo do futurista Gerd Leonhard no...

Will we see Human-Animal Chimeras soon (must read by MIT Technology Review)
“The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur...
08
Jan 2016
Rushkoff on the future of work, automation and the economic OS
“we may come to see that the values of the industrial economy are not failing under the pressures of digital technology. Rather, digital technology is...
08
Jan 2016

Watch Alain de Botton’s great talk on the philosophy of business and technology: the pursuit of wisdom
I really like Alain de Botton‘s work as it relates very much to my own desire to inject some #practicalwisdom (phronesis) into the conversation where- and whenever I...
07
Jan 2016

Must-watch talk on machine learning and AI: Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. Will Silicon Valley be ‘Mission Control for Humanity’?
This is a brilliant talk by the founder of Deepmind, Demis Hassabis, that affords a good glimpse behind the scenes of Silicon Valley AI / Machine...
05
Jan 2016
The Internet of Things is already here—just not the way you expected (#futuristgerd quoted)
“Gerd Leonhard, CEO of the Futures Agency, believes companies chasing user information “will never want less data from us, and they will find it impossible...
04
Jan 2016

My latest newsletter (GetRevue Issue #2) just went out: bring it on, 2016!
You can read the whole thing (and / or sign up) here Humanity and Technology: my #1 topic Technology and/versus Humanity: my new Youtube PlaylistWWW.YOUTUBE.COMThis...
04
Jan 2016

An important leadership lesson from Garry Kasparov: what works today may not work tomorrow
via HBR.org Chess champion Garry Kasparov on coaching and competition: “There’s this conventional wisdom that it’s possible to give universal advice — a tip. But we’re all different. Your...
02
Jan 2016

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,...
30
Dec 2015

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,...
29
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...