Image courtesy of Kunsthalle Budapest: ’No One Belongs Here More Than You’ | 2011 | curators: Petra Csizek, Gábor Döme | office: Újirány Group | authors: Árpád Kovács, Péter Pozsár, Gábor Szohr, Dominika Tihanyi On an overpopulated and panoptic planet, individualism as we know it and its form of solitary consciousness might not be viable […]
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Artificial Intelligence Gold Rush: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple Grabbing AI Startups
Over 60% of the AI companies acquired in the last 3 years had VC backing. There have been 4 major acquisitions already in 2016. Read more here
Scientists May Have Just Discovered a Parallel Universe Leaking Into Ours
Scientists say that signals from the furthest reaches of space suggest that the fabric of our universe is being disrupted by another universe. The discovery could provide proof of the multiverse theory, which says that there are many alternate universes. read more here
DNA 451: saving the world’s knowledge in your body rather than your head
Scientists can safeguard the world’s knowledge against Big Brother or an apocalypse by storing it in DNA. More? Watch the video here
Illah Reza Nourbakhsh “Robot Futures” Talk
With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and […]
Is “corporate socialism” the future of humanity?
Sometimes the best way to start is to start from scratch. The tech futurists behind Sui Generis, a Montreal-based company with ambitious plans to jumpstart stagnant nations with networks of startup-friendly city-states, don’t see the point in revamping existing countries and their dying governments. The world we live in, they posit, is too far gone. […]
Our Life on Mars, Our Life on Earth: A Reason to Join the CRAG
Our Life on Mars, Our Life on Earth A Reason to Join the CRAG The Crag, the Creation of Reality Group at the University of Edinburgh, is moved by a collective desire to understand how ideals can become a social reality and shape our future. We want to provide inspiration and a toolkit to transform […]
Jobs Are for Machines
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines an article by Scott Santens On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile of bricks and wood […]
Creating a brain?
CREATING A BRAIN? Researchers have developed a functioning miniature replica of the human brain, composed of neurons and glial cells, to help study and better understand neurological diseases. Source here