Big data, Google and the end of free will (via The Financial Times)

We are at the pivot point of exponential and combinatorial technological evolution: all around us, science fiction is becoming science fact – and the future will increasingly arrive gradually then suddenly. We need to proceed with a very wise combination of precaution and pro-action. (Gerd Leonhard in Technology Vs. Humanity) Similar to Gerd’s vision is this MUST READ article by Yuval Noah Harari … Continue reading "Big data, Google and the end of free will (via The Financial Times)"

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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 But are our genes really ‘outdated software’ ?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 Our ability to understand it, to reverse-engineer it, to simulate it, and most importantly to reprogram this outdated software is also expanding exponentially.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/
via Instapaper

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