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Tech Bowl: Best Buy Spotlights Mobile Innovators, Founders In Super Bowl Spot
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Every year, Best Buy runs a big Super Bowl spot, and traditionally they go the route of hiring a big celebrity to hawk their brand message. Last year, it was “the Biebs” and Ozzy Osbourne. This year, Best Buy has opted for something a bit different, choosing to highlight innovators...
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Human Augmentation
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As long as there have been humans, there have been dreams of super humans. Eyeglasses started sharpening vision in the 1200s, pacemakers have been implanted to extend lifespans since the late 1950s, and the first strength-amplifying robotic exoskeletons shipped earlier this year. But those innovations are only the beginning. With advances...
An interview in the present with Futurist Ross Dawson #TNW2012
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Today at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, we interviewed Ross Dawson, a globally recognized futurist, entrepreneur and business strategist. He is also the bestselling author of 4 books. While living in the present, we asked Dawson how he defines a futurist and how we as a human species can...
Intel Dabbles In Science Fiction
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Computers that simply do the sames things faster and faster are becoming boring. Been there, done that. But a device that can detect and interpret your emotions? Or intelligently organize a meeting, knowing that one of the participants is jogging at the time? That's a more interesting proposition. Intel, perhaps...
Qualcomm & AT&T Look To Accelerate The Internet Of Things
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In the not-so-distant future, everything in our lives is going to be connected to the Internet of Things. Fire hydrants, medical equipment, toasters. Really, everything. Yesterday a "smart" fork was introduced to bring "metrics to your mouthfuls." If you can slap a sensor to a device and add wireless connectivity,...
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Quantum Computing
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Moore's Law describes the phenomenon that makes this year's computer more capable and less expensive than last year's. But it won't go on forever. While engineers have come up with various schemes to keep it rolling, quantum computing is the best hope for extending it indefinitely. The concept has been...
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Artificial Intelligence
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There is no more powerful concept in futurist writings then the notion of artificial intelligence. The ability for humans to create machine-based life that thinks on its own and acts on its own has the potential to make our lives dramatically better - or worse, depending on what kind...
Google's Director Of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, Is Building Your 'Cybernetic Friend'
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World-renowned artificial intelligence expert and Google’s new Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a ‘cybernetic friend,’ who knows users better than they know themselves. “I envision in some years that the majority of search queries will be answered...
Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Biometric Authentication
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The problem is not new. One way or another, people have to validate their identities. I am trying to enter a building or a Web service that only Joe Smith should have access to, I need to offer evidence that I am, indeed, Joe Smith. For decades, authentication has required...
Ray Kurzweil Talks Entrepreneurship, Apps, and The Future Of Education [TCTV]
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Legendary scientist, inventor, futurist, and all-around tech icon Ray Kurzweil is at the ongoing South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, where today he headlined one of the event’s most highly anticipated keynote sessions. So we were very, very excited to be able to meet Kurzweil yesterday afternoon...
Futurist Ray Kurzweil on smartphones, AI, and the human brain
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The inventor and author speaks onstage at the Techonomy conference in Tucson about his new book on human thought and the themes that stem from it. [Read more]...
How I Busted Out Of My Addictive Technology Loop
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As with all addictions, our intense fascination with life-changing tech must be managed. I found this out the hard way--when my rental car met the parking garage wall.Recently I was sitting around the boardroom table of a major security company in Tel Aviv, when I noticed something quite unusual. There...
Conflict Minerals In Your Phone Could Spur E-Recycling But Likely More Conflict
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Coltan, Democratic Republic of the Congo While blood diamonds have been the subject of movies and have received great attention, a far lesser known issue remains - one of conflict minerals, the most common of which include cassiterite, wolframite and coltan as well as the ever lustrous gold. Much of...
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Making Humans Immune To The Deadly Forces Of Space
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is disappointed that robots are being sent into space instead of humans, and he is wondering if we can make ourselves immune to the deadly forces of space. Filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva goes one step further and says that we would be able to code biology...
Social: It's the End of the World, And I Feel Fine: 10 Questions with Andrew Zolli
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Andrew Zolli, author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, says we might not be able to change the future, but we can figure out how to survive it. Photo: PopTech/Kris Krug Andrew Zolli is a funny kind of optimist. As a futurist, he thinks it may be too late to...
GigaOM and GigaOM Pro head to SXSW
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SXSW is just around the corner, and this year’s Interactive conference continues to expand. Amid the battles for the best party-finding app, where to score the best steak tacos, and which Austin startups to watch, there is the actual conference to attend. After registered SXSW Interactive attendees exceeded the number...
How Larry Page and the Knowledge Graph helped Ray Kurzweil decide to join Google
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It's been a few months since noted author, futurist and AI guru Ray Kurzweil joined Google, and Singularity Hub has interviewed him to catch up on how his machine learning projects are going thus far. While Kurzweil said his projects haven't progressed too far at this point, he did...
The Facebook Millionaires Are Going To Build The Next Wave Of Brilliant Tech Companies
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SAN FRANCISCO -- All eyes are on Facebook Inc., which is on the verge of a $100-billion initial public stock offering. But the people to watch are an elite group of former company insiders. Already loaded, or soon to be, thanks to the looming Wall Street payday, these Facebook...
Google’s Eric Schmidt waxes futurist on the digital divide at Mobile World Congress
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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt channeled famed futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku in his keynote at the Mobile World Congress today. What started as an overview of new features in Chrome for Android turned into a powerful discourse on the power of technology and what it means...
Everything That Will Go Extinct In The Next 40 Years [Infographic]
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Futurist website nowandnext.com put together this awesome infographic predicting all of the technologies, behaviors, and ideas that will probably be distant memories by 2050. Among their predictions: no more retirement four years from now, no more secretaries six years from now, and no more free parking or sit-down breakfasts by...
Traffic, healthcare, money, housing, corruption: Brazil's problems and how tech can help fix them
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Brazilian tech futurist Michell Zappa kickstarted the first edition of TNW Conference Latin America with a keynote on 5 infrastructure problems facing Brazil, and how technology can help solve them in a new and creative way. As you may remember, Zappa is the founder of Envisioning Technology, where he creates data visualizations...
Why Every Corporation Should Employ A Futurist
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Most people and corporations are terrible at planning for the future, according to prominent futurist Dr. Peter Bishop of the University of Houston. "The way the public -- and particularly the way policy and decision makers talk about the future, is with way more certainty than they should have," Bishop...
"Disrupters don't just play and experiment. They kill"
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At the end of South By Southwest Interactive – after MakerBot had unveiled its desktop 3D scanner, after Google had demonstrated the power of Google Glass, after Leap Motion had shut down its demo tent, after churns of Spring Breaking startups had partied themselves into a stupor – science fiction...
Is Path next?
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Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram has many asking who might snap up the mobile photo sharing and messaging service. By Richard Nieva, contributor FORTUNE — Facebook’s acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion on Monday set a new precedent for the social network. With lofty goals and gobs...
How Google's Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
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Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language understanding, a particularly relevant point of interest for Google given its goal to organize the...
Google's Kurzweil on teaching human language to computers
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The noted inventor and futurist tells Singularity Hub that one of the challenges to language processing is teaching computers to process information in a hierarchical fashion, as mammals do. [Read more]...
A guide to all the insane predictions made by Google's new engineering director
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Google (GOOG) made a very important hire this past week when it decided to bring on famed futurist Ray Kurzweil as its new director of engineering. What makes the hire particularly intriguing is Kurzweil is equal parts brilliant and insane: He is a pioneer in fields such as speech recognition...
Q&A: How digital anthropologist Brian Solis is reaching 'Generation Connected'
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Self-described digital anthropologist Brian Solis has a habit of being in the right place at the right time. During the late 1990s, Solis attended all the right events, voraciously blogged, and snapped thousands of photos of Silicon Valley’s newly-minted technology elite. He quickly became one of the original “super...
Kurzweil: Brains will extend to the cloud
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Futurist and computer pioneer Ray Kurzweil says it will be possible to 'repurpose' human brains to learn new things....
Pen and sword equally mighty for science fiction's Stephenson
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Futurist author Neal Stephenson regaled a bleary-eyed but enthusiastic Black Hat crowd with behind-the-scenes tales of baking science into his fiction, and the struggles in creating a first-person video game sword-fighting system. [Read more]...
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