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Should We Fear ‘the End of Work’?

October 1, 2017 0

Opening Insights: Making Sen$e In a 2012 report on the show "Making Sen$e" by Paul Solman explored “Man vs. Machine.” In this report he examined the future of the American worker and asked the question: Will Human [...]

Face-reading AI Will Be Able to Detect Your Politics and IQ

September 13, 2017 0

Opening Insights: Dangers of Technology In 2012, a U.S. Army Research Laboratory funded study, led by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presented a paper demonstrating how activity forecasting would work. The study focused on the "automatic detection [...]

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking

June 11, 2017 0

Opening Insights Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue (wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut) is the key to [...]

Smart Cities Wonderful? What Do You think?

December 10, 2016 0

Opening Insights The allure of automated everything that serves us so we can do less of the mundane and more of what really matters is difficult to ignore. However, just as it is in many […]

Life In 2030 Smart City Promises Utopia

December 9, 2016 0

Opening Insights Houston, we have a problem…. “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this […]