Future Day, 1 March, is a global phenomenon. Our goal is to have Future Day adopted as an official holiday by governments on all levels around the world for the global population to consider the future of humanity. This year, Future Day in Sydney will be celebrated at FEIT, UTS Building 11, Level 7, 81 …...
“Quantified Self” means self-knowledge in numbers. The Quantified Self movement was founded by the two US-american journalists Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf. A goal of the Quantified Self is to capture by means of self-tracking as much data as possible about oneself and save it in digital form. This may be someone’ s weight, but …...
What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Can we instruct AIs to help us to build better future as we desire? What goals should we encode in such machine or computers ? As per Nick Bostrom latest TED Talk: Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a …...
Several founder/inventor of tech giant like Google, Facebook, eBay, Napster, Netscape using their billions to rewrite the nation’s science agenda and transform biomedical research. They are using technological tools like the chips, artificial intelligence software programs, sophisticated algorithms and machine learning in creating an information revolution — to understand and upgrade what they consider to …...
Holidays provide a fantastic way of channelling peoples’ attention and energy. Most of our holidays are focused on past events or individuals, or on the rhythms of nature. History and nature are wonderful and should be honoured — but the amazing future we are building together should be honoured as well. This future day conference is …...
We could get to the singularity in ten years says AGI pioneer Ben Goertzel, but we needed a strategy to reach this goal. Such goal can be achieve if right kind of people focus on right things. He gave some ways and examples to achieve this goal like…. Dantzig’s solution to ‘unsolvable’ statistics problems, where Dantzig’s solved …...
The internet is rife with chatter about the transhumanist age we are entering, where radical science and technology are already changing the way we live. Everything fromrobotic hearts to personal drones to mind-reading headsets are here. The new tech coming in just a few years will touch nearly every aspect of our lives, including one of …...
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), USA is developing 14 Transhumanist technologies for upcoming future. They are developing technologies like Prosthetic Leg, Wireless Brain Computer Interface, Synthetic Tissue, Cartilage Regeneration, Implantable Sensor etc. They have just launched an app for demonstration of their technologies as Bionic Man....
Since I wrote couple of articles on Brain Computer Interface and Visioning 2050 the world has seen the emergence of MindRDR, which allows users to take pictures and upload them on the web through HMDs such as Google Glass, all with just a thought. The future, is here. MindRDR’s innovative app product is a mere beginning. …...
A recent conversation on a Linkedin group drew attention to automated robots writing the news soon after events occur, for media agencies. This lead a veteran Futurist to ponder the prospect of automated technology eventually using the same system and algorithms to create automated AI enabled robots or systems to forecast or plan scenarios, rendering …...
