Nassim Nicholas Taleb warns us about climate change
Summary: This is the second post looking at statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s insights about “ruin” risks, and what they tell us about climate change. Here we look at his warning about climate...
View ArticleChina takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps
Summary: The Apollo program demonstrated America’s superpower status in the 1960’s. Today’s contests are more diffuse, such as the race to build the most and largest supercomputers. China has moved...
View ArticleIgnore the skeptics. America can still grow.
Summary: Can America no longer grow? Have we exhausted the potential for future technological progress? Let’s look at how far we have come and ask if the engines of progress that produced these wonders...
View ArticleStratfor: The Hype About the Hyperloop
Summary: History shows that the new industrial revolution just beginning will bring wonders, things often seemingly more like science fiction than practical technology. Here Stratfor looks at the...
View ArticleArthur C. Clarke warns us about bold confident predictions
Summary: Arthur C. Clarke warns about the "Hazards of Prophecy." Don't take those predictions about 2018 & beyond too seriously. Especially the gloomy ones about technological stagnation, with so...
View ArticleArthur C. Clarke: use your imagination to see the future
Summary: Arthur C. Clarke warns about the "Hazards of Prophecy". In part 2 he warns about confident forecasts declaring an innovation to be impossible, and gives some stunning examples of scientists'...
View ArticleOne of humanity’s greatest minds shows us the 21st century
Summary: New Years begin with a flood of predictions. Here is one from the past by one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. It helps us understand how we got here and where we are going. "The...
View ArticleCelebrate our bright future on New Year’s eve!
Tweet Summary: Amidst the gloom that blankets America, there is evidence that a discontinuity in history approaches – a technological singularity. It could blow away many of today’s problems. Let this...
View ArticleThe new industrial revolution will change everything
Tweet Summary: Industrial revolutions reshaped the world. But during the long pause of tech progress since WWII, we forgot what they do to society. Here is a reminder. A timely one, since a new...
View ArticleA solution to the coming job apocalypse!
Tweet Summary: One aspect of the industrial revolution now beginning is the coming wave of automation from the combination of semi-intelligent machines, better algorithms, improved cheap sensors, and...
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