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2016

Kevin Kelly | 12 Inevitable Tech Forces That Will Shape Our Future | SXSW Interactive 2016

Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2016-03-26 11:05
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In a few years we’ll have artificial intelligence that can accomplish professional human tasks. There is nothing we can do to stop this. In addition our lives will be totally 100% tracked by ourselves and others. This too is inevitable. Indeed much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends which are already in motion, and are impossible to halt without halting civilization. Some of what is coming may seem scary, like ubiquitous tracking, or robots replacing humans. Others innovations seem more desirable, such as an on-demand economy, and virtual reality in the home. And some that is coming like network crime and anonymous hacking will be society’s new scourges. Yet both the desirable good and the undesirable bad of these emerging technologies all obey the same formation principles.

Kevin Kelly
  • 2016
  • Exponential Technology
  • 6471 reads

The last job on Earth: imagining a fully automated world | Guardian Animations

Submitted by Exponential Times on Wed, 2016-03-23 02:15
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While we can’t predict the future, we can imagine a world without work – one where those who own the tech get rich from it and everyone else ekes out a living, propped up by an increasingly fragile state. Meet Alice, holder of the last recognisable job on Earth, trying to make sense of her role in an automated world.

  • 2016
  • Animation
  • Disruptive Technology
  • Technological Unemployment
  • 5553 reads

WHY WE PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE

Submitted by Exponential Times on Wed, 2016-03-23 02:11
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"A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play." - Kevin Kelly

Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz.

Jason Silva
Kevin Kelly
  • 2016
  • Future
  • Singularity
  • Transcendent
  • Transhumanism
  • 4865 reads