Sunday, March 30, 2014

Personhood Beyond the Human: the Subjectivation Scale of Future Persons

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Philosophical concepts are useful for considering a potentially diverse landscape of future persons. One important question is subjecti...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Big Data becomes Personal: Knowledge into Meaning

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One of the most significant shifts in the contemporary world is the trend towards obtaining and analyzing ‘big data’ in nearly every venu...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

The Post-Human Biocitizen

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We find ourselves in a world with a frenetic pace of life sciences bio-innovation emanating from institutional science, startups, and com...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Correcting Cognitive Bias with Nanocognition, Machine Ethics Interfaces, and an Ethics of Reality

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Along with the potential future possibility of changing our perceptual apparatus through nanocognition (nanorobot-aided cognition), come...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

Illiberty in Biohacking, Personal Data Rights, Neuro-diversity, and the Automation Economy

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Illiberty is a new concept that describes the notion of a lack of liberty. In one way it is strange that a word for the opposite of liber...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Microbots: Automation Revolution Continues with Miniaturized Electronics

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Ratcheting down technology’s price-performance improvement curve, we have seen the evolution of computers from the size of a room to a PC...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Personalized Drone Delivery: the new Personal Computer?

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Miniaturization, robotics, and the hastening automation economy are coming together in interesting new ways. Personal drone delivery serv...
Sunday, February 09, 2014

MOOCs The Platform: Education, Vocational Training, and More

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MOOCs (massive online open courses) reinvented education in the mode of global accessibility, even faster than blogs and ebooks reshaped...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

Turning Big Data into Smart Data

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A key contemporary trend is big data - the creation and manipulation of large complex data sets that must be stored and managed in the cl...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Antifragile: Build Open Resilient Systems

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Nicholas Taleb Nassim’s latest book, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (2012) is a nice continuation and development of his oeu...