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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
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: 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