Futures Studies

Futures studies is an interdisciplinary field that aggregates and analyzes trends, with both lay and professional methods, to compose possible futures. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight. Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking, futuring, and futurology. Futures studies and strategic […]

Brain Computer Interfaces

Source: Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, New School University, New York NY m@melanieswan.com Journal of Evolution and Technology – Vol. 26 Issue 2 – October 2016 – pgs 60-81 1. Brain-computer interfaces Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are any manner of technology that might link the human brain to communications networks such as the Internet. In […]

A Nick Bostrom Quote on the modern human condition.

All techno-hype aside, it is striking how recent many of the events are that define what we take to be the modern human condition. If compress the time scale such that the Earth formed one year ago, then Homo sapiens evolved less than 12 minutes ago, agriculture began a little over one minute ago, the […]

10 AI Technologies

here’s my list of the 10 hottest AI technologies: Natural Language Generation: Producing text from computer data. Currently used in customer service, report generation, and summarizing business intelligence insights. Sample vendors: Attivio, Automated Insights, Cambridge Semantics, Digital Reasoning, Lucidworks, Narrative Science, SAS, Yseop. Speech Recognition: Transcribe and transform human speech into format useful for computer […]

Four futures of environment and society

1: Geoengineered safety Population 9 billion Global energy use 8 × 1020 joules CO2 concentration 400 ppm, dropping We acted early in the 21st century, invested aggressively in renewable energies and crucially, geoengineering It wasn’t easy, but by investing heavily in R&D, we have built systems for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and […]

7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity

Most science fictional and futurist visions of the future tend towards the negative — and for good reason. Our environment is a mess, we have a nasty tendency to misuse technologies, and we’re becoming increasingly capable of destroying ourselves. But civilizational demise is by no means guaranteed. Should we find a way to manage the […]

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How swarm intelligence could save us from the dangers of AI

We’ve heard a lot of talk recently about the dangers of artificial intelligence. From Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, to Elon Musk, and Steve Wozniak, luminaries around the globe have been sounding the alarm, warning that we could lose control over this powerful technology — after all, AI is about creating systems that have minds […]

What are Overminds?

Collective Intelligences (or overminds) are emergent forms of intelligent behavior which arise out of the interactions of intelligent agents (humans and/or bots). You may recognize some social technologies which have enhanced collective intelligence (.e.g. Written language, Standardized Time and measurement units, Libraries, TCP/IP, search engines). You may also recognize some “species” of overminds which exist […]