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The Lipstick robot – artificial intelligence and robots still have a way to go:)
Via Ajit Joakar and Twitter and Simon Gertz ... Read more
New interview on IIET: Basic Income Guarantee will allow us to move up the Maslow Pyramid
By Hank Pellissier READ THE POST HERE Gerd Leonhard is an acclaimed European futurist; his popular videos are featured at IEET and he is a regular...
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Feb 2016
Join me for a Socratic Design Workshop in Cadaqués, Spain Feb 26-27
Socratic Design Workshop CadaquéS 2016: join me for a Socratic Design Workshop in Cadaqués on February 26-27, 2016, organised by shift 2020 and Schwab Filosofia. The program starts with an overview of future transformative trends...
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Feb 2016
Scammers and Spammers: Inside Online Dating (great RollingStone read)
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05
Feb 2016
The Futurebots are here: IBM Watson ingests 2,000 TED Talks, now answers your deepest questions. The end of Futurists? Take the Poll.
via GIPHY Great read via Business Insider UK about IBM's Watson ‘watching' and understanding (?) and analysing (ok… yes) 2000+ Ted Talks. He/she/it (?) now knows...
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Feb 2016
About Facebook anxiety
“there remain plenty of Facebook detractors. The Kernel shone a baleful light on “Facebook anxiety” comparing the experience of flicking through the curated feeds of...
02
Feb 2016
My latest newsletter went online: issue #4 now available
Read it or subscribe here ... Read more
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Feb 2016
Some Buckminster Fuller Bottom Lines (via BrainPickings)
“Fuller then moves on to the vital distinction between money-work and purpose, debunking the myth of the zero-sum game of prosperity:It is also mistakenly assumed...
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Jan 2016
Must watch: new documentary on Privacy by Aleks Krotoski, presented by Silent Circle and The Guardian
The Power of Privacy In observance of Data Privacy Day, Silent Circle has partnered with The Guardian to produce The Power of Privacy, a film that explores...
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Jan 2016
The evilfication of Facebook: boiling frogs, faustian bargains, and the pleasure trap: 10 arguments for quitting Facebook (UPDATED)
This post will be updated regularly as I'm deciding on what to do about my Facebook presence. Thanks for all your votes btw – you...
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Jan 2016
What does it mean to be human in the age of technology? (Tom Chatfield – The Guardian)
“This is an astonishing, disconcerting, delightful thing: the crowd in the cloud becoming a stream of shared consciousness.We think of ourselves as individual, rational minds,...
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Jan 2016
To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat (Wired)
Good and pretty funny read on Wired.com TOM WAS DISCUSSING the film star Tang Wei with a chatbot named XiaoIce, and the bot was excited: “A goddess!...
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Jan 2016
Digital Ethics: The role of the CIO in balancing the risks and rewards of digital innovation
“What is digital ethics?In our hyper-connected world, an explosion of data is combining with pattern recognition, machine learning, smart algorithms, and other intelligent software to...
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Jan 2016
My latest newsletter just went out – best links and must-reads January 2016
You can read it online here (and / or sign up for more). Join 10.000+ subscribers 🙂 ... Read more
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Jan 2016
Stop Being A Loner, It’ll Kill You: low social interaction has worse effects than obesity
“This paper mirrors the results of a 2013 study from Brigham Young University, which found that "low social interaction has the equivalent lifespan impact as...
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Jan 2016
Meet the digital dissenters: They’re fighting for a better internet. Made me think
“Where do humans fit into this new economy? Really not as creators of value, but as the content. We are the content. We are the...
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Jan 2016
The World in 2016: slides + video of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote on the future of business and humanity (Economist Gala 2016) UPDATED
Event Details Malta Economist Future 2016 Gerd Leonhard Public high res PDF 32 MB Malta Economist Future 2016 Gerd Leonhard Public-web Low Res 6.9 MB ...
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Jan 2016
Meet me in Malta tonight (Economist Gala event): ‘machines will have the power of a human brain by 2025’ via the Malta Independent
A nice preview of my keynote at tonight's event just went online at the Malta Independent. Some snippets: “By the year 2025, machines will have...
