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As shown in the figure, taken from the WEF 2018 Future of Jobs report infographic, several jobs are expected to decline over the coming few years affecting some 73 million people in the world (affecting means people losing their jobs). The good news is that 133 million people will find …

  Unanimous AI is a US company that is leveraging from the emerging intelligence that can derive from pooling several brains and computers into “swarm” of intelligence. They have created Swarm AI, a tool to pull brains together glueing them with computer AI. The result: emerging intelligence. The cluster of …

Following on the previous post on the potential implication of increasing human thought capabilities, issues that will be examined by Derrick de Kerckhove in his keynote at the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Workshop on October 30th in San Diego in conjunction with TTM 2018.  Make a point to be there and participate …

In this second round of posts on Transhumanism, stimulated both by reading the Frost&Sullivan report on Transhumanism and by the preparation of the second White Paper on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems I have addressed the possibilities of increasing human thought capabilities. Clearly I expressed very personal opinions on the feasibility of …

Using the brain as a co-processor  As soon as we started having computers researchers tried to connect them together to leverage on the possibility of harvesting more processing power. Internet is the result of this idea: connecting computers (with their processing and data) in a seamless web that can be …

2. Enhanced Sensing A lot of research is ongoing to meet the needs of impaired people who lost completely or partially some of their sense capabilities, be it hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting (the order reflects both the investment and the results obtained so far). Most of the results …

We have started to augment our body long long time ago, probably the first augmentation go back 170,000 years ago when our ancestors started to wear clothes to protect themselves from cold weather. You might not consider that an “augmentation” but it actually made possible to extend significantly the human …

Evolution has marched along the 4.5 billion years of our Planet. Although life seems to have started some 3.5 billion years ago, evolution was already at work before that time, creating new and more complex molecules that eventually gave rise to the first forms of life. It has never stopped, …

In my previous post in this series I included a clip of an interview with dr. Michio Kaku, a US theoretical physicist and futurist with Japanese grandparents, where he made the point that the basic, structural ingredients of intelligence with respect to evolution can be found in the opposable thumb, …

In the closing of the previous post I tried to make clear that the focus here is on smartness not on intelligence. There are tools to measure intelligence, IQ tests. However, these tools are using measuring sticks that are suited to our current view of Intelligence. Were we to apply …