I love this guy's optimism and to his credit, a lot of what he talks about has already come to pass. In my own life, I ditched my car as it cost me $400 a month and I mainly used it to cart my empty wine bottles to the recycling bin and generate parking fines.. it was pretty good at that. Now I zip around in an electric Smart or Mercedes B 250 e (Tesla technology) as part of the local car-sharing scheme for about 20% of the cost. ... for example.
More interesting is the point touched on at the very end.. he talks about what it means to be human and that this will get more and more teased out (of the fabric of being I guess) as human labor becomes redundant - when work no longer marks your place in society and most of the essentials are free. This was discussed by Marx (that line about going fishing in the afternoon once the means of production become common property and you no longer have to sell your labor, etc.). Heidegger also talked about it, but saw work more as the essential mode of being, bit like Camus's Sisyphos.. finding oneself in the activity of work.. which might be something to do with our nature, we are all just frenetic primates when it comes down to it and we need to play around with sticks.
This is where it gets really interesting. What is it that makes us happy? Individually? As a family? As a society? Personally I think I would fail miserably if I didn't have the feeling of mastering existential challenges (scraping enough together to pay the tax bill etc.). But maybe I'm already a relic of a bygone age.
you're only a relic if you're using linear thought and looking in the rear view mirror
let's look forward to what is coming at an ever increasing pace
the short answer is that we're naturally linear thinkers but we're living in a world of exponential growth technology
linear thought has served us well and will continue to do so (where it applies)
peter's six d's help us get a grasp on the framework of what's happening but more importantly the speed at which it is happening
there's a reason that some of the brightest people in the world are working/collaborating with the SU team and others that understand the concept
it's naturally difficult at first for most people to fathom such things (if you take some time there's a lot of examples in their material-companies that got left in the dust, etc.)
I love this guy's optimism and to his credit, a lot of what he talks about has already come to pass. In my own life, I ditched my car as it cost me $400 a month and I mainly used it to cart my empty wine bottles to the recycling bin and generate parking fines.. it was pretty good at that. Now I zip around in an electric Smart or Mercedes B 250 e (Tesla technology) as part of the local car-sharing scheme for about 20% of the cost. ... for example.
More interesting is the point touched on at the very end.. he talks about what it means to be human and that this will get more and more teased out (of the fabric of being I guess) as human labor becomes redundant - when work no longer marks your place in society and most of the essentials are free. This was discussed by Marx (that line about going fishing in the afternoon once the means of production become common property and you no longer have to sell your labor, etc.). Heidegger also talked about it, but saw work more as the essential mode of being, bit like Camus's Sisyphos.. finding oneself in the activity of work.. which might be something to do with our nature, we are all just frenetic primates when it comes down to it and we need to play around with sticks.
This is where it gets really interesting. What is it that makes us happy? Individually? As a family? As a society? Personally I think I would fail miserably if I didn't have the feeling of mastering existential challenges (scraping enough together to pay the tax bill etc.). But maybe I'm already a relic of a bygone age.
and if you think about it, the superfast growth in tech (both physical and biological) just drives home the need for us to incorporate the human action sciences asap
your personal operating system/philosophy really matters
please incentivize peace whenever and wherever possible
A $20 Million global competition to develop breakthrough technologies that will convert CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial facilities into valuable products like building materials, alternative fuels and other items that we use every day.
Interesting but I stopped really paying attention when he used Kodak as an example. Kodak built the first digital camera, so no one was deceived by the importance of digital cameras and the dismal future for film... except Kodak.
.. and I still don't have a yacht. fuggit.
is there anyone else here who doesn't actually feel any richer than they were as kids in the 60s or 70s?
Interesting but I stopped really paying attention when he used Kodak as an example. Kodak built the first digital camera, so no one was deceived by the importance of digital cameras and the dismal future for film... except Kodak.
Diagnostic system developed by Technion professor is to pair with tiny smell-sensitive sensor that can go anywhere
The NaNose breathalyzer technology developed by Professor Hossam Haick of the Technion will soon be installed in a mobile phone – to be called, appropriately, the SniffPhone. A tiny smell-sensitive sensor will be installed onto a phone add-on, and using specially designed software, the phone will be able to “smell” users’ breath to determine if they have cancer, among other serious diseases.
By identifying the special “odor” emitted by cancer cells, the NaNose system can detect the presence of tumors, both benign and malignant, more quickly, efficiently and cheaply than previously possible, said Haick.
“Current cancer diagnosis techniques are ineffective and impractical,” he said. NaNose technology, he said, “could facilitate faster therapeutic intervention, replacing expensive and time-consuming clinical follow-up that would eventually lead to the same intervention.”
According to research done by Haick’s team, the NaNose system has a 90 percent accuracy rate.
The smartphone device is just a vehicle to implement the NaNose technology that can be taken anywhere and used in any circumstances, including in rural areas of the developing world where bringing in sophisticated testing equipment is impossible.
The plan calls for a chip with NaNose technology to be installed in a device that is attached to a smartphone, and for an app to read the sensor data, analyzing it on the device or uploading it to the cloud for processing.
