“Approximately once a decade, a radical new technology emerges that fundamentally changes the landscape. In the 1970s, it was mainframe computing. In the 1980s, it was PCs. In the 1990s, it was the Internet. Today, it’s the ‘online social graph’”.
The what? Yes, the “online social graph”. Think social networking. Think Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.
This is a guest post written by entrepreneur, Singularity University alumnus and teaching fellow Rod Furlan. He is an independent researcher in the fields of artificial intelligence, quantitative finance and high-performance computing…
Click here for the entire post located on the Singularity Hub. You may have to scroll down to see it.
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Welcome to the world of “cloud labour” where a virtual workforce will undertake any task in the cloudlike world of cyberspace for the best possible price…
Click here for the article found on the New Scientist website.
Click here for more on the digital worker and virtual labor.
Ray Kurzweil discusses the future of BCI (Brain-Computer Interfaces) at a workshop at the X-Prize lab in MIT, January 2010. This workshop was co-sponsored by Singularity University.
The U.S. remains the world’s science and technology leader, but other countries are gaining ground, the National Science Board said Friday in its biennial report on science and engineering…
Click here for the article found in the Wall Street Journal.
Let’s review the taxation ways. Let’s count the ways – Sales taxes, School taxes, Property taxes, Village taxes, County taxes, State taxes, Federal taxes, fees as taxes, etc…
And now Global taxation…
The U.N.’s World Health Organization is Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity, etc…
Global taxation is begining, where will it end?
Click here for the article found on Fox News titled “U.N.’s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity”.
Is superhuman intelligence feasible, or even desirable?
Click here for Part seven in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. New posts every Monday from November 16 to January 23.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s contention last week that privacy is becoming less important to online users caused a stir across the Internet and among privacy advocates.
Zuckerberg told an audience at the 2009 Crunchies Awards ceremonies in San Francisco on Friday that social norms are…
Researchers are exploring this notion. They theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development…
Click here for the complete New York Times article.
Click here for more information from Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the author of the coming book “Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn”.
The way we communicate with each other is rapidly changing and it is a big deal. When we communicate more efficiently and faster, the rate of change just keeps accelerating. On and on we go – faster and faster!
Here’s a list of articles that have recently caught my attention on the subject of life extension. I have posted them on my Blogging Life Extension website.
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