We must face our fears if we wish to get the most out of technology– and we need to conquer those fears if we wish to get the very best out of mankind, states Garry […]
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move more detailed toward creating all-knowing makers, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is dealing with something a […]
Hacking, fake news, info bubbles … all these and more have actually become part of the vernacular recently. However as the online world expert Laura Galante describes in this disconcerting talk, the genuine target of […]
We have to talk with kids about the risks they face online, states details security professional Sebastián Bortnik. In this talk, Bortnik goes over the problem of "grooming"– the sexual predation of children by adults […]
New tech spawns brand-new anxieties, says scientist and theorist Grady Booch, but we don't have to hesitate an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by discussing how we'll […]
Cybercrime netted a massive $450 billion in revenues in 2015, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies to safeguard our data. His […]
Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Sign up with the software application […]
Every year the silicon computer chip diminishes in size by half and doubles in power, enabling our gadgets to become more mobile and accessible. However what takes place when our chips cannot get any smaller […]
"The real path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, however the general direction is unavoidable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly– and technology is much the same, owned by patterns that […]
Need is the mother of invention, right? Well, not always. Steven Johnson reveals us how some of the most transformative ideas and technologies, like the computer, didn't emerge from need at all however instead from […]
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