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Coverage of the latest developments in transhumanism and emerging technologies by our members
Crypto for Good - Assessing the fear, uncertainty and doubt against the opportunities to do good with cryptocurrencies
Why working for a living is immoral - the inevitable rise of automation, the case against “jobs”, and what to do about it
How demand for robots and automation accelerated during the pandemic - The pandemic has accelerated demand for robots and automation. Robots have been regulated to marketing jobs, receptionist duties, and companionship for the elderly. But they’re really starting to come into their own and have practical use. Let’s take a look at how.
The future of humanity is genetic engineering and neural implants - hear why at SXSW in March 2020
6 reasons Microsoft has become the go-to for machine learning, including the latest tools announced at Microsoft Build 2019
We sat down with the founders of Tide, Issac Elnekave and Michael Loewy for a discussion on their origin story, Tide Foundation, and the future of the Tide protocol at SXSW 2019, filmed in Australia House on Rainey St, Austin TX.
SXSW: How gamers are taking over AI and blockchain & rewriting the future. Kuro “KuroKy” Takhasomi has his hand tightly gripped on the mouse, his eyes are full of intense focus, darting from the left to right side of his screen, checking for movement.
SXSW: These two futurists want to freeze your body after death and replace your brain. You might think we’re not in Texas anymore but in some strange episode of Black Mirror, the Netflix series, says Nikos Acuna who is moderating this SXSW panel on transhumanism.
SXSW Announces 2019 Winners Of 11th Annual Pitch Event, including Nebula Genomics
Will AI eventually self-supervise and determine its own ethics? This is what Hanson Robotics and others had to say at SXSW
All the best AI conference sessions at SXSW - The SXSW events you shouldn’t miss if you’re interested in AI!
You’re already transhuman, you just don’t know it: MWC Barcelona - Will you merge with technology or be left behind?
The 12 key MWC sessions for emerging tech and transhumanism - All the best sessions for AI, AR/VR and Biohacking
5 lessons on how to fight bias in AI from Pause Fest - Lessons from Google, Microsoft and the best tech companies
The Platform Wars - How competing software, hardware and political ideology could accelerate existing divisions in humanity into the future
The iPhone 20 - A roadmap for how smart devices can integrate with our bodies by 2029 and how Apple can stay relevant over the next decade
Wild Health Summit says the future of healthcare is… fax machines? Health is an analogue world that desperately needs AI, data and mobile
AI and blockchain will affect billions of white collar workers. This is what was said about AI and blockchain at the World Congress of Accountants 2018
We could be the last generation to have children the old fashioned way, if at all. Infinite healthspan and artificial eggs and sperm could change our idea of family
These are the developments accelerating us towards total job automation. It’s time we prepared for the possibility of a jobless future.
The future is female but it sure is terrible in many ways. Google’s Duplex voice assistant wowed everyone when it was first released onstage in a live demo. In the demo, the voice assistant, which happens to be a female voice, called up a hair salon to make an appointment. Caught up in the excitement, some people may have missed the dialogue in which the voice assistant asks for a ‘woman’s haircut’ — words few women would ever utter.
Why losing your job to AI automation could be the best thing to happen. McKinsey reported that 400 to 800 million jobs worldwide will be lost by 2030. That’s only 12 years away. Not enough time for an entire generation to retrain for completely new jobs. As co-founder of Transhumanism Australia, where we investigate systematic changes to society and humanity, I know only too well what exponential technology is doing to jobs…
“Designer Immortality” — TEDXMelbourne - Could we all live a type of designer immortality in the near future?