Bigger Than Google
Former Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Peter Torrellas shares his vision for a business opportunity that is bigger than Google: sharing our experiences and emotions.
Category: Optimism
Your life is going to change faster than ever before
Human society and individual lives are are about to undergo the a dramatic transformation due to exponentially accelerating technologies. Discover what will happen in the next 20 years.
MANIFESTO FOR THE OBVIOUS INTERNATIONAL and THE SYNERGETIC OMNI SOLUTION (SOS)
The Instant & Efficient Comprehensive & Synergetic Omni-Solution exists wherever and whenever any individual chooses to infuse an action, however minute, with creativity and purpose for the sake of a greater good.
The sofa-larity won’t happen
Technology can resemble a box of matches in the hands of children. The invention of matches is smart, intelligent, but personal intelligence can take longer to mature. Our cultural intelligence will however catch-up with the smartness of technology.
Enter the World of the Surrogates
Ever since I was a kid I have been interested in an episode of Batman The Animated series, in which a fight scene takes place between a robotic version of Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman, called a “duplicant”, basically a robot that duplicates a human.
Video Friday — Technological Singularities: An Overview
Gennady Stolyarov discusses three technological singularities that have already happened and discusses their effects and impacts on human existence.
Time and the Transhuman Condition
My first action was to begin writing letters to my future self. I can’t ever quite convey the humility experienced opening a letter on your 18th birthday that you wrote 10 years prior. As adults we look back at our childhood and consider ourselves to be inferior. Yet our views, so pure and untouched by the later mishmash of growing up, hold an honesty and a directness.
What is Transhumanism?
Transhumanism is a positive philosophy about the future based in optimism, rational thinking and the application of science and technology to improve the human condition.