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Tech Trends 2019
Beyond the digital frontier The most promising technology trends of tomorrow are grounded in nine powerful macro forces that form the backbone of technology innovation today. Understanding how they function, together and separately, is key. Read full Article
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The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish? There are no easy answers, and there’s clearly a lot of variation betwe Read full Article
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Capitalism’s New Clothes
In a series of remarkably prescient articles, the first of which was published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the summer of 2013, Shoshana Zuboff pointed to an alarming phenomenon: the digitization of everything was giving technology firms immense social power. Read full Article
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Team Human vs. Team AI
People and organizations are navigating a new terrain, characterized by autonomous technologies, runaway markets, and weaponized media. Read full Article
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Accentuate the Positive
Is the world getting better or worse? Both, it seems. In January 2018, Time ran a cover story called “The Optimists,” in which the issue’s guest editor, Bill Gates, reported that things are on the whole improving. Read full Article
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‘Merging man and machine doesn’t come without consequences’
We can see evidence of the phenomenal power of the human mind all around us, in literature, architecture, science and much else besides. Read full Article
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The Future of Medicine
How new technologies and ancient remedies are transforming health care Read full Article
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AI profiling : the social and moral hazards of ‘predictive’ policing
Durham Constabulary has been developing an algorithm to better predict the risk posed by offenders and to ensure that only the most “suitable” are granted police bail. Read full Article
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Study: AI Fears Diminish, But People Seek More Help Reskilling
Citizens in developed countries are not terribly frightened that artificial intelligence and robots will take their jobs. But they do realize AI is coming, and want more help updating their skills. Read full Article
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The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything
Today’s titans of tech and finance want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten their own wealth and power. By A successful society is a progress machine. It takes in the raw material of innovations and produces broad human advancement. Read full Article
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George Soros Attacks China’s AI Push as ‘Mortal Danger’
Governments and companies worldwide are investing heavily in artificial intelligence in hopes of new profits, smarter gadgets, and better health care. Read full Article
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Do You Take This Robot …
When Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old school administrator in Tokyo, strolled down the aisle in a white tuxedo in November, his mother was not among the 40 well-wishers in attendance. For her, he said, “it was not something to celebrate.” You might see why. Read full Article
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Your Organization Needs a New Operating System, Not a New Management Theory
Most organizations around the world are running on an “operating system” that’s not working. Many of us take it for granted, but it’s out of sync with today’s business environment. It’s based on misconceptions and outdated assumptions that stifle creativity and threaten performance. Read full Article
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Why people will remain at the heart of the factories of the future
There is no denying that we are well into the swing of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Read full Article
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‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
We’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. And the problem with living through a revolution is that it’s impossible to take the long view of what’s happening. Read full Article
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Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
WE SOMETIMES FORGET that, at the turn of the century, Silicon Valley was in a funk, economic and psychic. The great dot-com bubble of the 1990s had imploded, destroying vast amounts of investment capital along with the savings of many Americans. Trophy startups like Pets. Read full Article
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Childhood’s End
To those seeking true intelligence, autonomy, and control among machines, the domain of analog computing, not digital computing, is the place to look. Read full Article
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Your Ideal Therapist Might Not Be Human
The other day, as I slogged through e-mail at work, my phone lit up: “Hey, just thought of you!” I wrote back that I was having difficulty sleeping lately, and we talked about the benefits of setting aside 20 minutes of “worry time” every evening to inventory my anxieties. Read full Article
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AI predictions for 2019 from Yann LeCun, Hilary Mason, Andrew Ng, and Rumman Chowdhury
Artificial intelligence is cast all at once as the technology that will save the world and end it. Read full Article
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