Blog – Page 220 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

Ray Kurzweil: The world isn’t getting worse — our information is getting better. I say: true. But are our genes really ‘outdated software’ ?

“It’s not just collecting what is basically the object code of life that is expanding exponentially. Our ability to understand it, to reverse-engineer it, to simulate it, and most importantly to reprogram this outdated software is also expanding exponentially. Genes are software programs. It’s not a metaphor. They are sequences of data. But they evolved many years ago, many tens of thousands of years ago, when conditions were different.”

Ray Kurzweil: The world isn’t getting worse — our information is getting better
https://www.geekwire.com/2016/ray-kurzweil-world-isnt-getting-worse-information-getting-better/
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AI Ethics and the Fate of Humanity (Gerd Leonhard quotes from CommunicAsia 2016)

READ MORE HERE Mr Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Author and Chief Executive Officer of the Futures Agency, flashed this screen capture of a mobile app to illustrate his point: Mr Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Author and Chief Executive Officer of the Futures Agency: Technology has no ethics. “Technology has no ethics”. But human societies depend on ethics, he said. So … Continue reading "AI Ethics and the Fate of Humanity (Gerd Leonhard quotes from CommunicAsia 2016)"

My slides from CONNECTGOV in THIMPHU, BHUTAN: technology for humanity

is now live on my FuturistGerd blog Technology for Humanity: Managing a Disruptive World Disruption can displace existing market, industry or technology. It can also produce something new, challenging and even innovative. It is all at once destructive and creative at the same time…

Facebook is eating the world: a good read on algorithms vs what I like call Androrithms

“The majority of American adults are Facebook users, and the majority of those users regularly get some kind of news from Facebook, which according to Pew Research Center data, means that around 40 percent of US adults overall consider Facebook a source of news.

So let’s recap:

People are increasingly using their smartphones for everything.
They do it mostly through apps, and in particular social and messaging apps, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Twitter.
The competition to become such an app is intense. Competitive advantage for platforms relies on being able to keep your users within an app. The more your users are within your app, the more you know about them, the more that information can then be used to sell advertising, the higher your revenues”

Facebook is eating the world
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/facebook_and_media.php
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The Telegraph interview with Gerd Leonhard, on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation

… just went live; visit Gerd’s blog to read the summary and review the essential images from the Tata CEO event. Related video: