“The clock rate of organisations are increasing”
“The driving force for aggregation is diversity”
“What makes us intelligent is the models we think with”
“The only way you can be more effective is by aggregation”
“Good models make useful ideas simple”
“In 2061 aggregate individuals will be the dominant species of the planet”
“Lets make them of love”
The singularity is here
Ken Haase Is an engineer scientist philosopher that talked about the singularity - a new concept to me - but basically how human intelligence can aggregate into new "super intelligence" by means of communications technology - and I guess a shared purpose. A slightly frightening, but at the same time exiting perspective. Frightening because it implies to some extent giving up your own personal interest (ego), lending your brain to a bigger cause (something you might argue we do at work everyday anyway :-) Some examples
- The Open Science movement - Michael Nielsen.
- Timothy Gowers - Polymath project, crowdsoursing a match problem.
- Social reading - change the way we read.
“The cost of an East African to go online will be reduced by 90% this year”
“Literacy is not enough”
“Education is about opportunity”
“Education is the single most powerful tool we have to radicate poverty”
“The rules of yesterday, can simply not apply for the life of tomorrow”
“The more you share, the less they know”
Hasan Elahi
talks about radical transparency
talks about radical transparency
“If we don't pay attention I think we can end up in a future of participatory totalitarianism”
Kaliya Hamlin
Identity, the contexts of future.
Identity, the contexts of future.
“Where power goes, governance must follow”
“I believe the Globalisation of power is one of the phenomenas of our time”
“The US will remain the most powerful nation on earth for the next 10-15 years”
“We have to do business with people we do not share values. but have a common interest”
“We are interdependent in a way we never have been before”
Paddy Ashton´s third law: “In the modern age where everything is connected, the most important thing is what you can do together with others”
“The poem No man is an Island is a part of the equation for our survival”
Why the world will never be the same,
and what we should do about it.
“Financiers think they started the party”
“Finance its not an industry”
“Capital follows ideas, it always has”
Entrepreneurs 2061
“Make science a fundamental part of being co-creator of God, and make wonderful things that our grand children can be proud of”
“The money class will be the technologically equipped class”
“We will feel the consequences of global warming, survive and learn from it”
“The social cost of all this (global warming) will be brutally intimidating”
“The ones that contributes the least to global warming will suffer most”
“Addiction to social media will increase”
“Every technology and wrinkle of technology has a dark side”
“A machine which pollutes is only half invented”
“Fear will make us less emphatic - unless we fight it”
David Brin
Reinventing Civilization across half a century
“People will grow houses”
“Biology is nanotechnology”
Beyond machines: The year 3000
“Information and energy is two sides of the same coin”
“In the next 50 years we will work on the physics of information”
“Particles - troubles me”
“Dimensions are just cultural artifacts, we don't need them”
“Consciousness is creating the illusion of space and time”
A theory of everything (else)
“Its a pleasure to be her in Europe - I come frome the UK”
“Death is our last great adventure”
The art of dying well
“Bad PowerPoint presentations are a serious threat to the global economy”
“We should use dancers to express all of our complex problems”
Dance your PhD
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