Blog – Page 80 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

A couple of years before he was convicted of securities fraud, Martin Shkreli was the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company that acquired the rights to Daraprim, a lifesaving antiparasitic drug. Previously the drug cost $13. Read full Article

Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic

Mathematicians, computer engineers and scientists in related fields should take a Hippocratic oath to protect the public from powerful new technologies under development in laboratories and tech firms, a leading researcher has said. Read full Article

‘Homo sapiens is an obsolete algorithm’: Yuval Noah Harari on how data could eat the world

There’s an emerging market called Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man – it worships data. From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. Read full Article

Yuval Harari: “Human beings are all algorithms!”

Published in around thirty languages, with millions of copies sold, ‘Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind’ traces the evolution of Homo sapiens, combining history and science and both delving back into our past and looking into our future. Read full Article

Best scenes from my keynote at Smart Move 4.0 Monterrey, Mexico: transformation, technology & humanity

Brand new video – enjoy!