Web 3.0

“Simply put, we can’t keep preparing children for a world that doesn’t exist.” -Cathy N. Davidson

Exponential technologies have a tendency to move from a deceptively slow pace of development to a disruptively fast pace. We often disregard or don’t notice technologies in the deceptive growth phase, until they begin changing the way we live and do business. 

SVETA MCSHANE ON NOV 13, 2015

Une minorité d’adeptes prédit une “singularité technologique” imminente dans l’économie. L’économiste William Nordhaus pense au contraire qu’il faudrait encore plusieurs décennies avant que les robots ne se substituent aux humains pour inventer des nouvelles technologies.

Tim Harford, 16/11/2015

In the last few decades, we have witnessed major technological innovations such as personal computers and the internet finally reach the mainstream. And with mobile devices and social networks on the rise, we're now more connected than ever.So what's next? When is it coming? And how will it change our lives? Today I'll tell you that the next big advance is well underway and it's being fueled by a recent technique in the field of Artificial Intelligence known as Deep Learning.

Tomasz Malisiewicz, 07/11/2015

A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end

Charles Arthur, 07/11/2015

The Terminator’s Skynet has always served as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a neural network-based Artificial Intelligence were ever given access to the entire internet along with the world’s weapons. Well, the future is now, and Google’s RankBrain has been secretly crunching search data for almost all of 2015.

Patrick Frye, 06/11/2015

The thing to know about Yann LeCun, the director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and a professor at New York University, is that he was right. LeCun was an early developer and proponent of deep learning during the 1980s, which is a machine-learning technique that builds and combines different types of artificial intelligence so they are standardized to all learn new things the same way. 

Lily Hay Newman, 05/11/2015

Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets. But before they can become widespread, carmakers must solve an impossible ethical dilemma of algorithmic morality.

There’s a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves. Here’s how a recursively self-improving AI could transform itself into a superintelligent machine.

George Dvorsky, 22/10/2015

System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human teams.

In the last few years, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrust into the mainstream. No longer just the domain of sci-fi fans, nerds or Google engineers, I hear people discussing AI at parties, coffee shops and even at the dinner table...

Zoltan Istvan , 18/10/2015

La réponse au constat accablant de l’effondrement ne peut reposer sur le déni ou l’aveuglement. Si on le prend au sérieux, il nécessite de réorienter notre système d’innovation et ses priorités, d’aller bien plus loin que de décarboner notre développement technologique : il nécessite de développer des technologies de l’effondrement. Des technologies plus simples, monomatérielles, recyclables, robustes, déselectronisées, déconnectées, décomplexifiées… Il nécessite de prendre au sérieux la piste de “l’écologie by design”,

Hubert Guillaud le 15/10/15 

Science fiction is one step closer to reality.

The Internet of Everything or IoE consists of the Internet of Digital, the Internet of Things, and the Internet of Humans. Of course, none of these actually exist because there’s really only one internet but they’re useful conceptual subsystems.

Tony Guerion, 18/11/2015

In the not too distant future, your body may be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s.

Your genome will be sequenced; the bacterial demography of your gut polled, your steps tracked, your calories counted, and your brainwaves monitored. All this will be digitally analyzed and stored somewhere “out there” on a bank of servers.

 JASON DORRIER ON NOV 12, 2015

Comment se forger des valeurs dans un monde en pleine mutation ? Quelle formation faut-il choisir ? Que faire de sa vie ? Dans cette lettre à ses enfants, notre chroniqueur Laurent Alexandre livre quelques pistes de réflexion.

JAESA, 07/11/2015

La meilleure définition à donner du Transhumanisme, c’est le blurring de l’homme et de la machine. En bon français, le floutage, le brouillage, l’effacement des limites. Jusqu’à l’effacement de la limite ultime, la mort elle-même.

Georges de La Ville-Baugé, 06/11/2015

Computers are a long way from possessing human-level smarts, but they are doing increasingly useful things with technologies that form the building blocks of artificial intelligence, and by 2035, they’ll be driving our cars, at least sometimes.

Benjamin Romano, 05/11/2015

A schism within the global Transhumanist Party calls into question whether the party can survive in politics at all.

How many fringe movements, subcultures, and special interest groups have been torn apart by infighting right when they were at the verge of reaching a larger audience? It’s a common phenomenon that has thwarted many important discussions before they even began, and now it seems to be happening to the Transhumanist Party.
RACHEL PICK, 03/11/2015

An astrophysicist says he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago.

While mapping the so-called "cosmic microwave background," which is the light left over from the early universe, scientist Ranga-Ram Chary found what he called a mysterious glow, the International Business Times reported.

brian wang, 04/11/2015 

I recently came across an interesting framework discussing the importance of platform thinking. In an impressive effort, Sangeet Paul Choudary dedicates a whole book to this subject (“Platform Scale“), a weekly newsletter – and in the spirit of becoming a platform as well – its own website (http://platformed.info/), explaining the latest best practises and strategies on how companies can leverage platform thinking and why it is important in today’s world

TOBY RUCKERT OCTOBER 12, 2015 

Forget humans versus machines: humans plus machines is what will drive society forward. This was the central message conveyed by Dr. John Kelly, senior vice president of IBM Research, at...

SHELLY FA ON OCT 14, 2015

Can tech breakthroughs help humanity prosper when global population hits 10 billion?

We live in a world in which computers can trade stocks faster than any broker on the floor and best any living human in the game of Jeopardy.

But it turns out even our smartest artificial intelligence (AI) is still relatively dumb. So what do humans have that our machines don't?

Guia Marie Del Prado, 14/10/2015