Must read piece by human works design co-founder Canay Atalay’s on creating humanist futures for learning. “With the unlimited richness of children’s dreams, we can use learning as a powerful tool to create sustainable human development and flourishing. As conscious leaders, in companies, schools, communities, governments, families, it’s our responsibility to design meaningful futures, for and together with children, the game changers of tomorrow.”

In her series on sustainability, human works design contributor Seyda Dağdevi̇ren Hill continues her quest to create more awareness and responsibility on how to implement better sustainability issues into our lives. Because taking action is a part of the process of exploring, learning and experimenting.

A 5-year-old today will enter a working world in 2030 that is so incomprehensible that we need an existential re-imagination of the very foundation of education. It’s the cliched hope of the paranoid parent that teaching Chinese will best prepare kids for a future of different power structures in geopolitics, but is that essential in a world of Google translate? Many thinking teaching kids to code is the solution, but won’t soon software be written by software? Our vision for the future needs to include more imagination. It’s staggering to me as to how much the world has changed, and how little education has. The digital age means a different world.

Have you ever wished that there were something different about yourself? Maybe you imagined yourself taller, thinner, or stronger? Smarter? More attractive? Healthier? What about your children? In this thought-provoking talk, Knoepfler readies us for the coming designer baby revolution and its very personal, and unforeseeable, consequences for humanity.

Since 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. According to this research, teens who spent five or more hours a day online were 71 percent more likely than those who spent less than an hour a day to have at least one suicide risk factor.

Is big data making us more well behaved but less human? If you feel you are being watched, you change your behaviour. Big Data is supercharging this effect. This could limit your desire to take risks or exercise free speech. Over the long term these ‘chilling effects’ could ‘cool down’ society. 

92% of all you think about is not conscious. The human brain is the world’s most powerful computer and we don’t know what it is processing, we just know the end result, which manifests itself as a conscious instruction. Find out about your bias-based habits and your perception vs reality state. You will pick up the wonderful bonus of understanding why miscommunication occurs so readily between us humans.

John Battelle on his exchanges with with five leaders of extraordinary NewCos, the kinds of companies that restore your faith in the role business can play in the world: “Each of these companies is venture backed and for profit. But they are also all focused on missions that go beyond mercenary or financial goals. They’re thriving reminders of the good that business can create in the world. And they are proof that the startup world can move past the culture of “bros” to a culture of inclusiveness and true problem solving.”

Why top corporations are working toward a more sustainable future and how more can be encouraged to follow suit: “If you move the conversation on sustainability away from CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and frame it in the dimensions of costs opportunity, market and revenue opportunity or strategic risk, you can create a compelling argument around these three dimensions and link that to financial bottom line indicators.”

The world has done well by corporate capitalism – a historically unprecedented period of economic growth and human development, with millions lifted out of poverty to name but a few of its achievements. But the sustainable growth which is necessary for economic prosperity and human development alike appears to be faltering. So, how should corporations adapt their strategy agenda to respond to this challenge?

Most problem-solving methodologies are based on predictability. Design thinking is an effective approach for problems in a world of accelerated uncertainty. Why is it such an important process for solving social problems?

With human works design, we offer Conscious Business Model Design workshops to executives and entrepreneurs who want to get to the next level in designing conscious business strategies and conscious business models. Please get in touch if you want to learn and implement ‘Conscious Business Model Design’ workshop for your business, project or learning program.

The necessary tools will soon be available to create true DAOs. At its foundation, SingularityNET is a set of smart contract templates which AI Agents can use to request AI work to be done, to exchange data, and to supply the results of AI work.

By 2030, a little over ten years from now, as much as 30 percent of work done globally could be automated. This estimation is according to the latest report published by private sector think-tank McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) which assessed the effects of automation in various socioeconomic environments.

“What if the kernel of on-demand work is not short-term associations and spot market exchanges, but in allowing us to create a new understanding of work: contextual interaction based on collaborative creativity and human capital?” By Esko Kilpi

Three new reports suggest that artificial intelligence can probably do less right now than you think. But by one estimation, up to a third of American workers will have to switch jobs by 2030 largely because of it.

To replicate ourselves in artificial intelligence, we first have to embrace human error. Sci-fi writer Hugh Howey says we shouldn’t try it.

Our artificial intelligence systems are advancing at a remarkable rate, and though it will be some time before we have human-like synthetic intelligence, it makes sense to begin working on programming morality now. And researchers at Duke University are already well on their way.

No joke, this is real! Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the heart of the Uber/Google lawsuit, is serious about his artificial intelligence religion.

We curate the latest data and trends on artificial intelligence in one place. This report aggregates a diverse set of data, makes that data accessible, and includes discussion about what is provided and what is missing. Most importantly, the AI Index 2017 Report is a starting point for the conversation about rigorously measuring activity and progress in AI in the future.

The team behind Instagram’s Explore tab reveals how a special sauce of algorithms and human curation keep things hyper-personalised–while reeling us in with weird slime videos we never knew we’d love.

Reuters is scooping its rivals using intelligent machines that mine Twitter for news stories. “The advent of the internet and the subsequent information explosion has made it increasingly challenging for journalists to produce news accurately and swiftly.” For Reuters, the problem has been made more acute by the emergence of fake news as an important factor in distorting the perception of events.