Blog – Page 118 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever

Hossein Rahnama knows a CEO of a major financial company who wants to live on after he’s dead, and Rahnama thinks he can help him do it. Rahnama is creating a digital avatar for the CEO that they both hope could serve as a virtual “consultant” when the actual CEO is gone. Read full Article

Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?

In 1967 British biologist and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar famously characterized science as, in book title form, The Art of the Soluble. “Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. Read full Article

We Must Not Accept an Algorithmic Account of Human Life

One remarkable development of twentieth century science is the discovery that both physical structures and the communication of ideas can be assembled on the basis of algorithms that make use of codes. Read full Article

Historian: When Computers and Biology Converge, Organisms Become Algorithms

On May 11, 2016, the Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Center invited Yuval Noah Harari, a professor of history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of the international bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” to deliver a talk on “The New Inequalities” at Tsin Read full Article

From Stone Tools to Robots and AI: How Will Technology Change Human Civilization

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