Intelligences
Imagine you are in charge of developing an artificial intelligence. Your AI has the ability to move into the world and mingle with human beings,… Read More »Intelligences
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Hybrids (4): Intersections and you
This is the fourth of a series on the role of hybrids in innovation. This is where I put the ideas of the previous posts to… Read More »Hybrids (4): Intersections and you
Hybrids (3): when ideas breed (Kevin Kelly on combinatorial innovation)
Kevin Kelly has a lot to say about innovation as combination. Here’s a good riff: Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.… Read More »Hybrids (3): when ideas breed (Kevin Kelly on combinatorial innovation)
Hybrids (2): combinations and connections (Tim O’Reilly on Combinational Innovation)
New ideas and technologies are often hybrids. Sometimes we take quantum leaps and invent entirely new technologies, but more often they seem to emerge at… Read More »Hybrids (2): combinations and connections (Tim O’Reilly on Combinational Innovation)
Hybrids (1): John Stuart Mill on Diversity of Ideas
By most accounts, hybridity is a good thing. Cross breeding animals and plants can result in stronger, healthier populations. John Stuart Mill argued that diversity of… Read More »Hybrids (1): John Stuart Mill on Diversity of Ideas
Rewriting the world
The possibilities of the future are often lying latent in the field of our vision. We can’t see them… And then suddenly we do, and… Read More »Rewriting the world
On Assignment
Kevin Kelly went to Asia in the early 1970s having never held a pair of chopsticks. He took a change of clothes and 500 rolls… Read More »On Assignment
Time Travel (2)
The Future is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson There’s a second way to look at this. If looking at other places… Read More »Time Travel (2)
WTF? Technology and you
WTF: What’s the Future? Tim O’Reilly If you’re doing meaningful work, you’re trying to hit a moving target, and your job isn’t made any easier… Read More »WTF? Technology and you
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