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The Singularity will go mainstream
The concept of the coming technological singularity is going to enter mainstream discourse, and won’t go away. It will stop being something that can be dismissed as freaky or outlandish – something...
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The China Brain project and the future of industry
An intriguing note popped up on my Twitter feed a couple of hours ago. It was from James Clement, owner and manager at Betterhumans LLC: with U.S. economy hurting, AI programs may move to China to work...
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Predictions for the decade ahead
Before highlighting some likely key trends for the decade ahead – the 2010′s – let’s pause a moment to review some of the most important developments of the last ten years. Technologically, the 00′s...
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Accelerating automation and the future of work
London is full of pleasant surprises. Yesterday evening, I travelled to The Book Club in Shoreditch, EC2A, and made my way to the social area downstairs. What’s your name? asked the person at the...
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Workers beware: the robots are coming
What’s your reaction to the suggestion that, at some stage in the next 10-30 years, you will lose your job to a robot? Here, by the word “robot”, I’m using shorthand for “automation” – a mixture of...
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Towards a mind-stretching weekend in New York
I’ve attended the annual Singularity Summit twice before – in 2008 and in 2009. I’ve just registered to attend the 2011 event, which is taking place in New York on 15th-16th October. Here’s why. On...
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Beyond future shock
They predicted the “electronic frontier” of the Internet, Prozac, YouTube, cloning, home-schooling, the self-induced paralysis of too many choices, instant celebrities, and the end of blue-collar...
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Previewing Global Future 2045
The website for this weekend’s Global Future 2045 international congress has the following bold headline: Towards a new strategy for human evolution By many measures, the event is poised to be a...
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Preparing for driverless vehicles
It’s not just Google that is working on autonomous, self-driving cars. Take a look at this recent Atutoblog video showing technology under development by Swedish manufacturer Volvo: This represents...
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Opening Pandora’s box
Should some conversations be suppressed? Are there ideas which could prove so incendiary, and so provocative, that it would be better to shut them down? Should some concepts be permanently locked into...
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Technological unemployment – Why it’s different this time
On Tuesday last week I joined members of “The Big Potatoes” for a spirited discussion entitled “Automation Anxiety”. Participants became embroiled in questions such as: To what extent will increasingly...
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Serious questions over PwC’s report on the impact of AI on jobs
A report (PDF) issued on Tuesday by consulting giant PwC has received a lot of favourable press coverage. Here’s PwC’s own headline summary: “AI and related technologies should create as many jobs as...
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