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Our Future is being formed around one simple question, “what’s missing?”
There's nothing better than having a moment of brilliance that hits you and you think, 'YES'! In my world, we often spend time talking about epiphanies. That’s because every new product and business starts with an epiphany, so it’s in our best interest to create more...
Robotic Advances: COVID-Spurred and Otherwise
It’s not surprising that the COVID pandemic has gotten us all thinking about technology that can take the human element out of day-to-day “personal” interactions. There have been some very interesting, new adaptations of existing Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Building a More Valuable Human
How do we build a more valuable human? That’s essentially what education is all about. Each of us has only one body and one mind, and whatever we do to increase our skills and capabilities will make each of us more valuable on the world stage. So how do we calculate...
Will AI replace humans?
Elon Musk has given us nightmarish warnings about how AI could become “an immortal dictator from which we would never escape.” And now we hear about GPT-3, created by OpenAI, a research business co-founded by Elon Musk. Since GPT-3 has been described as one of the...
Our Urgent Need for Global Authorities
Facebook recently announced it was expanding its hate speech policy to include content that "denies or distorts the Holocaust," a major shift for the social media company that has repeatedly come under fire for its inaction on hateful and false information in the...
The Power of Being First
Almost as much as we’re fascinated by extreme accomplishments, and seeing people make it into the Guinness Book of World Records, we live in a world that’s obsessed with groundbreaking accomplishments like being FIRST. After all, few of us remember the second person...
Just-in-Case Learning versus Just-in-Time Learning
If you’ve had the fortune to have a college education and you’re two or more decades removed from the experience, what do you remember about what you learned? If you’re in the hard science world, with a PhD. in astrophysics and still working in that field, for...
How Do We Protect Our Growing Base of Information for All Time?
Is it ever ok to let information die? In the past, a group’s stories, legends, history, and religious beliefs were passed from generation to generation by word of mouth or documented in drawings or written languages of the day. That’s because from the earliest times,...
Robots and automation will never fully replace humans. And that’s a good thing.
Will a smile from a robot ever be as comforting as one from a mother? If a robot tells you how wonderful you are, will that ever mean as much as if your partner says it to you? Westworld and H.A.L. notwithstanding, robots have a long way to go before they’ll look or...
Make Way for Mega Projects
In the midst of this COVID-19 era, it’s hard not to be completely caught up in the day’s negative news. Deaths. Infection rates. Business bankruptcies. Foreclosures. For most people, the world has suddenly become a very scary place. Even those who are fortunate enough...
