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The Future, This Week 17 Aug 18: productivity, food crisis, and changing stories
This week: Googling productivity, placing weight on calories, and changing stories.
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The Future, This Week 3 Aug 18: meat-free, flat hierarchies and robituaries
This week: When your boss has a beef with meat, flat hierarchy facade, and sad robituaries.
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Shooting for the moon is surprisingly hard
One small step for man.…does not necessarily make good business sense for mankind.
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The Future, This Week 20 April 2018
This week: talking to books, bots and pods; echo chambers; and fish tanks and Musk's couch in other news.
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The Future, This Week 02 March 2018
This week: lawyers v. AI, logos all the same and ring my bell.
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The Future, This Week 02 February 2018
This week: break-in-news, I spy with my data eye, and fashion out of fashion.
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We need to talk about AI
If we are to ensure new technologies benefit human functioning and wellbeing we must move beyond the current focus on apocalyptic messages.
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Are we living in an alien’s computer game? Elon Musk thinks it’s probable
Elon Musk reckons it’s probable that humans are just characters in someone’s computer game.
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The Future, This Week 10 November 2017
This week: AI can't see my cat, predicting is creating, and it's a Musk.
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The Future, This Week 06 October 2017
This week: the algorithm is innocent, Australians in space, and the licence to watch.
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The Future, This Week 04 August 2017
This week: meet Mike, why electric cars are only getting greener, and are digital natives real?
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The Future, This Week 28 July 2017
Season 2 is here: what happened while we were gone, real problems with AI, spying vacuums, and a suicidal robot.