Imagine a future where AI has mastered every human endeavour – crafting symphonies more stirring than Beethoven’s, solving crises with a precision no leader could match, even nurturing with a patience that outshines the best of us. In this world, what role remains for you? As superintelligent machines edge closer to eclipsing us, we face…
In his new book Deep Utopia, Nick Bostrom invites us to imagine a world where the big problems are solved—no hunger, no war, just a quiet hum of existential security and near infinite bliss. But then what? In a recent interview, he offers a poetic twist: “It might be completely appropriate to place more weight…
Jamais Cascio discusses the Participatory Panopticon, Privacy & Secrecy, the ramifications of Disconnecting from the Chorus, what it means to be a Futurist, the Arc of Human Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, the Need for Meaning, Building Agents to Listen to Us, WorldChanging.com / OpenTheFuture.com, Geoengineering and the Viridian Green movement. We pollute our data-streams, to control…
