Thomas Friedman: From Hands to Heads to Hearts
Thomas Friedman tries to answer the question “if machines can compete with people in thinking, what makes us humans unique?”
SingularityHub: Bridging the Mental Healthcare Gap With Artificial Intelligence
24 Hours every day sufferers of depression can contact Tess and have a good talk. Tess will listen without bias and can remember everything.
The Guardian: Machine logic: our lives are ruled by big tech’s ‘decisions by data’
Machine Logic, rules and algorithms, are becoming more dominant in daily life and society. That is not necessary a good thing.
Nicholas Carr: The World Wide Cage
Does the Internet provide an unlimited amount of freedom or is it really an illusion and are we less free than we were before the birth of the World Wide Web?
The Guardian: How technology disrupted the truth
How technology disrupted the truth | Katharine Viner One Monday morning last September, Britain woke to a depraved news story. The prime minister, David Cameron, had committed an “obscene act with a dead pig’s head”, according to the Daily Mail. “A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig,” the paper reported. How technology disrupted the truth | Katharine Viner One Monday morning last September, Britain woke to a depraved news story. The prime minister, David Cameron, had committed an “obscene act with a dead pig’s head”, according to the Daily Mail. “A distinguished Oxford contemporary…
Forbes : If These Predictions Are Right, We Will Lose Millions Of Jobs To Computers
The application of machine learning to the ever-increasing amounts of data being produced throughout the world will change everything when it comes to our jobs. Yes, these new technologies will make jobs easier for many people – but they also may make many of those jobs obsolete.
Geek.com: Middle class workers are losing their jobs to robots
It’s a headline that is all too familiar these days. As the world of automation grows, what to do with this displaced workforce is becoming a leading topic among economists as well as world and business leaders
Boston.com : A ‘rock star’ Harvard professor just launched a new app for Alzheimer’s patients
A ‘rock star’ Harvard professor just launched a new app for Alzheimer’s patients Last week, Rudolph Tanzi was laying down keyboard tracks at Johnny Depp’s L.A. music studio for Joe Perry’s soon-to-be-released solo album. This past week, he launched a new app for Alzheimer’s patients. Tanzi, of course, knows what an important role music plays in the brain-the trained jazz pianist is one of the country’s top Alzheimer’s researchers and a neurology professor at Harvard. Source Information Original Title:
ToDoist : Read Less. Learn More.
Technology can help you read more in less time. The question is if that is actually helpful or are these innovations hurting your comprehension?
HBR: What Do Millennials Really Want at Work? The Same Things the Rest of Us Do
Millennials are not that different from other human beings and want more or less the same thing in work as the other generations do