Book Review: The State of the Future 2013-14
When professionals have to communicate difficult or problematic news, we often start out with the strategy of giving bad news first, then following with good news.
Category: Predictions
Will Humans Achieve a Type 1 Civilization by 2100?
Michio Kaku, has speculated on Kardashev’s scale and believes humanity will attain Type 1 status within a century or two.
Direct Brain to Brain Communication Between Animals and Humans
Now imagine this, we’re on our way to transcending the language barrier, with the Brain Computer Interface, for human to human communication, where direct and immediate interpretation or translation will be possible with the appropriate software. Imagine, if you can start understanding, what your dog, your cat or your hamster is thinking? And then now think, if we figure a way, to relay our thoughts or intended messages, to your pets or other animals, in a way, they can understand? Going to the zoo will become a very different experience from what it is today.
The Singularity is Still Closer than it Appears
A rebuttal to Ramez Namm: the singularity is still closer than it appears.
Can Singularity Critics Pass the Turing Test?
The Singularity is not science fiction or a quasi-religious view.
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.
Driverless autonomous vehicles will revolutionize transportation
The first self-driving cars should hit the road by 2015. In a decade or two, a large part of the world’s vehicles will be autonomous. What impact will that have on our lives and the way we perceive cars?
Prof. Hawking, the AIs will BE US
Perhaps, as Prof. Stephen Hawking thinks, it may be difficult to “control” Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the long term. But perhaps we shouldn’t “control” the long-term development of AI, because that would be like preventing a child from becoming an adult, and that child is you.
The Future of Microgrids
A microgrid is a power grid on a small scale. It operates alone or can feed into the main power grid.
The Technological Singularity @ LOSCON 39 with David Brin, Phil Osborn, Vernor Vinge, Mitch Wagner
This is a super panel discussion from last year featuring David Brin, Phil Osborn, Vernor Vinge, and Mitch Wagner. The panel discusses the technological singularity with a live audience at LOSCON 39. The panel drop some pretty interesting ideas and...