After the Singularity, We’ll All Be Robots — Ray Kurzweil
The bottom line is we are one human-machine civilization. This technology has already expanded who we are and is going to go into high gear when we get to the steep part of the exponential.
Source: bigthink.com
Cory Doctorow’s Makers becomes more fact and less fiction every day.
Erase Traumatic Memories (and Achieve Your Own “Eternal Sunshine”)
Number 3 in Big Think’s series of dangerous ideas.
Source: bigthink.com
You’re a thousand times more likely to die because of what some urban banker did in 2008 than from what some Afghan-based terrorist did in 2001.
When the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
Clay Shirky, “The Collapse of Complex Business Models”
(via lonelysandwich)
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Fast Future CEO Rohit Talwar discussing a joint U.K. government/Fast Future study on the top 20 most popular future jobs of 2030
Source: smartplanet.com
If you want to understand the future, don’t pay attention to how technology is changing, pay attention to how childhood is changing.
Source: jayparkinsonmd
![LIFTlab on Ben Cerveny’s recent talk at Urban Labs:
The talk was entitled “The city as a platform: computational systems for urban society[,]” and the basic take-away was the proposition to see the city as an Operating System.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksamw8oSEU1qz4spmo1_500.jpg)
LIFTlab on Ben Cerveny’s recent talk at Urban Labs:
The talk was entitled “The city as a platform: computational systems for urban society[,]” and the basic take-away was the proposition to see the city as an Operating System.
Source: liftlab.com
The Future of Health Care Is Social
Jennifer Kilian and Barbara Pantuso, Fast Company:
In this feature article, frog design uses its people-centered design discipline to show how elegant health and life science technology solutions will one day become a natural part of our behavior and lifestyle. What you see here is the result of frog’s ongoing collaboration with health-care providers, insurers, employers, consumers, governments, and technology companies.
There’s a long road ahead to arrive at the future envisioned in this article, but it serves to illustrate how health care could evolve, given the right motivation, enabling technology and — most of all — will.
Of course, this kind of change will develop from the bottom up, in fits and starts, rather than by sweeping policy change or sheer political will. To that end, I’m encouraged by startups like Hello Health and collectives such as Health 2.0 Accelerator. They’re shaking things up, and we can’t have enough of that.
Source: Fast Company
Though the book released in 2005, I hadn’t seen this graph of the growth of supercomputing power over time from Ray Kurzweil. According to it, the singularity will arrive in 2025.
The film based on his book is to be released later this year.
(image via infoneernet)
Source: singularity.com
