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Technology vs. Humanity ?
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Technology vs. Humanity ? futuristgerd.com TechvsHuman.com @gleonhard #techvshuman Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous
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Man-Machine Clash, Crisis, Convergence / Symbiosis ?
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Becoming superhuman: omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent?
SLIDE 6 Images via http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler and Mark S Fisher
Ginni Rometty CEO, IBM 2014
“Big business decisions will be made not by experts or intuition but by big data and predictive analytics”
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The real danger is not that machines will
- verthrow us…
..but that we give them too much authority …
- r that we become too
much like them!
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Technology is increasingly tempting us to ‘forget ourselves’
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Technology is increasingly tempting us to ‘forget ourselves’
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The glass cockpit dilemma…everywhere?
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Tool-makers or tool-made?
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We are at the pivot point of exponential change
Wait and see Just do it
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“Gradually then suddenly”
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Magic Manic Toxic
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Anything that can be digitised, automated, intelligized and in the cloud… will be
So will anything that cannot be digitized or automated become more valuable ?
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Very soon, we will speak to machines like we speak to friends *
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Intelligent digital agents (IDAs) - the new normal?
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Who will be allowed to go deep-diving in your mind? Will you trust them with this ‘digital copy’ of you?
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Will we be the last generations that can exist un-augmented?
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Tomorrow?
“By the 2030s we will have nanobots that can go into a brain non-invasively through the capillaries, connect to our neocortex and basically connect it to a synthetic neocortex that works the same way in the cloud. So we’ll have an additional neocortex, just like we developed an additional neocortex 2 million years ago” Ray Kurzweil (April 2016 Playboy Interview)
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Technology is not what we seek but how we seek
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Technology is very good at hedonism but not at Eudaemonia
Martin Seligman
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‘Cognition is embodied - you think with your body, not just your brain’
from the movie ‘Her’ (Spike Jonze)
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You cannot automate happiness
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If we ask whether technology can do something or not… the answer is almost always YES (not if but when)
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What should (not) be digitized, medialized, automated or virtualised ?
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Should Silicon Valley* really be ‘Mission Control for Humanity’ ?
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Technology has no ethics
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Data is indeed the new oil: humanity needs a ‘protection agency’
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The era of ‘digital ethics’ is here
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? Humanity on-top of technology ?
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Exponential Humanism
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To keep humanity on-top of technology we may need…
A global digital ethics counsel: ‘Humanity Protection Agency’ Exponentially increased awareness, debating the key issues Eventually, a basic income guarantee / negative income tax (Self) regulation of ‘data oil’ companies & platforms A(S)I non-proliferation agreements (ANPA) Exponential humanism in education New social contracts Real reasons!!
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What would a ‘Humanity Protection Agency’ look like?
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#hellven: our choice
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via Douglas Rushkoff
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Embrace technology but don’t become it
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Stay on team human!
Gerd Leonhard, Author and Futurist Techvshuman.com FuturistGerd.com