It was great to join Stewart Alsop on his podcast, Crazy Wisdom recently. In our hour together, we did a deep dive into a broad range of topics around AI. Some of the highlights included: The importance of narrative and storytelling as a tool for exploring the future of AI, […]
It’s that time of year again and you know the drill. With the commencing of another January, most of us are resetting our annual clocks, our scheduled tasks, our aspirations, as we prepare for yet another trip around the sun. But is this really the best metaphor for what […]
It was my great pleasure to return to the FuturePod podcast recently for another conversation with futurist Peter Hayward. Given the rapid pace of change in the world of AI, there was a lot to talk about, as we try to make sense of the many factors driving the current […]
Midjourney image of robot and boy We live in a time of immense and often rapid change. Being in the midst of all of this, it’s easy for us to see much of the world in negative terms. Perhaps nothing illustrates this tendency so much as AI doomerism. Certainly, there’s […]
It’s interesting what inspires or motivates an article. It might be a conversation, a good book, a song from days gone by. Sometimes there’s just a deadline waiting to be met. In the case of “Playing the Long Game“, my latest article at H+ Magazine, it was a recent tweet by its editor, Michael Anissimov.
The closing plenary for the WorldFuture conference, held earlier this month in Vancouver, BC, was given by Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute. In his presentation, Frey offered up Eight Grand Challenges for humanity. It was a thought provoking presentation, though not without its critics. To recap, Frey stated that […]
Information. There is probably nothing so important to our lives, to our culture, to our world. Information, and the ability to communicate it, has been at the foundation of humanity’s rise since before we used fire or stone tools. It has allowed us to grow from nomadic clans to villages […]
Earlier this week, Charles Stross posted his thoughts on why he doesn’t think the Technological Singularity will happen. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the Technological Singularity is defined as that point in the future when a self-improving artificial general intelligence (AGI) achieves superintelligence. As Stross recommends, if you’re […]
How often do we hear people ask “Why isn’t the future here yet? Where are the gleaming cities connected by suspended walkways that look disturbingly like Habitrails? Where are the moon colonies and twinkling domed cities? Where are the robot servants dressed in 1940’s maid uniforms?” And most ubiquitously, “Where, […]