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🔮 The data monopolies; bikes vs cars; Schmidhuber on smart machines; can AI save science; personal space, hipsters & ketamine++ #112 #112 May 7, 2017
🔮 The myth of super AI; global energy optimism; startups vs companies; training AI; music as medicine; the Pontifex, Pyongyang & flying cars++ #111 #111 Apr 30, 2017
#110 Apr 23, 2017 🔮 Brain special: Neuralink, psychedelics, consciousness; digital monopolies; peak car, negative mass, healthy Italians++ #110 – What are brain-computer interfaces? When will we get them? How should we deal with monopolies like Fa
#109 Apr 16, 2017 🔮🐰 Doughnut economics; algorithms & management; decentralisation; robot wars; Burger King, facial hair & terrible products ++ #109 – 21st century economics to ditch physics; Amazon's leadership. Cambridge Analytica; Algorithmic manage
#108 Apr 9, 2017 🔮🗞 Publishing in the platform; globalisation; Google's deep learning chip; panpsychism, elephants, poo & graphene++ #108 – Platforms and publishers. How a hoax spread. Uber's psychological tricks to keep drivers working. TPU
#107 Apr 2, 2017 🔮💊 Doctor AI; privacy & algorithms; adtech's failure; robots hurt jobs; collecting treasure, dishwashers, fasting++ #107 – Robots & unemployment. How real is infowar? Adtech vs. real advertising. Digital music. How was C
#106 Mar 26, 2017 🔮 Fake news; augmented reality; humans and work; rethinking intelligence; mail-order brides, phone romeos, Aristotle++ #107 – Corporations in the age of inequality. Are Google and Facebook trying hard enough to battle fake news
#105 Mar 19, 2017 🔮🎂 Belonging; the Facebook threat; autonomous vehicles get serious; video games vs work; robot lawyers, digital pickpockets and the A380++ #105 – The importance of belonging. How big a threat is Facebook to society? Technopanics and shifting socia
#104 Mar 12, 2017 🔮 How AI will change the enterprise; robot friendships; quantum computing (maybe); Tinder select, time crystals, the connectome++ #104 – Artificial intelligence in the enterprise (actually interesting!) Voice has a way to go. Building fri
#103 Mar 5, 2017 🔮 After Uber; Snapchat's boom; tech ethics; curing cancer; preventing suicide; Sachs, Dennett & lucid dreams++ #103 – Snapchat pops. Ride-sharing is here to stay, even if Uber implodes. How the focus on exponential comp
#102 Feb 26, 2017 🔮 Facebook's bet on AI; taxing robots (or not); the changing nature of employment; outsmarting Intel; heroin in Philly; digital contraception; hoarding cobalt++ #102 – Facebook's AI ambitions. VR isn't a fad. Why we shouldn't tax robots. The changing nature of employme
#101 Feb 19, 2017 🌟 Yuval Harari & dataism; future skills; rebundling business models; living & designing with algorithms; fake news; insecure dolls, Russians, butter++ #101 – Yuval Harari in conversation. Skills for the future. The Internet as rebundler. Did the Trump campaig
#100 Feb 12, 2017 🔮💯 The future of jobs; beyond Moore's law; decentralization; the crisis of capitalism & democracy. 100th issue special++ – On the automation, jobs and work. The bright future after Moore's Law. Understanding decentralisation
#99 Feb 5, 2017 🔮 Building safe AI; poker-winning AI; improving autonomous vehicles; national identity, Snapchat++ #99 – Principles of AI; autonomous vehicles and privacy; America's cultural rift; AI beats humans at poker;
#98 Jan 29, 2017 🔮 AI & emotional intelligence; blockchain & marketplaces; jobs of the future; Apple's failing products; exoplanets, metallic hydrogen & time crystals++ #98 – Successful societies. Artificial intelligence and humans in harmony. The future of computers. Our pla
#97 Jan 22, 2017 🔮🔥 On progress; going long on AI; why basic income; President Trump; extreme weather; stem cells, graphene, alphabets++ #97 – Can we shape progress? Should we all have a basic income? Will VR lead to ubiquitous solitude? Should
#96 Jan 15, 2017 🔮 Automation, jobs and robots; iPhone is 10; the coming tech backlash; Lidar, young blood & Putin++ #96 – Automation & the job market - will it happen as fast as we think? Or is it already here? A 1978 d
#95 Jan 8, 2017 🔮 Voice revolution; manipulating media; lessons from Luddites; deep learning predictions; octopuses, buffalo and Canadians++ #95 – The voice revolution; how hackers manipulated the media; China's Red packet revolution; lessons frm L
#94 Jan 1, 2017 🔮 Happy ⓶⓪⓵⓻ Moore's Law, complex societies, inequality & more++ #94 – Moore's Law; complex societies; Apple's supply chain; deep learning; unethical Silicon Valley; inequa