Futurology  

Recently, Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired magazine joined The Agenda to lay out a road map for the future. He says technology has changed almost every aspect of the way humans live, and it's not about to stop. From virtual reality at home to the on-demand economy to artificial intelligence, the forces behind technological change are only accelerating.

According to Kevin Kelly, author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future The co-founder of Wired magazine joins The Agenda to lay out a road map for the future.

As in his book Kelly suggests we embrace these changes, including ubiquitous tracking, accessible artificial intelligence, constant sharing, getting paid to watch ads, VR in your home, and more.

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Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.

He mentions his concept of the Global Brain, the 'Holos.' Holos represents the upcoming combination of the internet, AIs, and human interconnected intelligence. Kelly suggests that future generations will look back at ours as the first race that "linked themselves together into one very large thing." We are only at the infancy stage of this, with the web being only about 9000 days old.

Part of this too will be the ascent of virtual reality. "What does the Internet look like in another 20 years? It is going to be an Internet of experiences," says Kelly.

Kelly bases his trend forecasts on his initial analysis of technology, an asking what it wants. He sees the benefits, but also acknowledges that great disruption will be caused by the transition. Interestingly, Kelly points to the emergence of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate as a direct result of technological unemployment already.

When asked if people are ready for this change, Kelly provides a firm "No," saying that is why he wrote his latest book. We can't control technology by trying to limit it, says Kelly, we need to embrace it to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms. Only by embracing and using technology can we change it into what we want.

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Futurism  

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers Kevin Kelly, comes, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives.

According to Kevin Kelly, much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In his fascinating, provocative new book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Futurehe provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces.

"I’ve been told it is my most readable work yet."

In a few years we’ll have artificial intelligence that can accomplish professional human tasks. There is nothing we can do to stop this, says Kelly. In addition our lives will be totally 100% tracked by ourselves and others. This too is inevitable. Indeed much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends which are already in motion, and are impossible to halt without halting civilization. Some of what is coming may seem scary, like ubiquitous tracking, or robots replacing humans. Others innovations seem more desirable, such as an on-demand economy, and virtual reality in the home. And some that is coming like network crime and anonymous hacking will be society’s new scourges. Yet both the desirable good and the undesirable bad of these emerging technologies all obey the same formation principles.

In The Inevitable, a book Marc Andreessen calls, "an automatic must-read," Kelly both describes these deep trends—flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.

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Kelly says the book, "is about the deep trends in the next 20 years that will shape your life. I suggest we embrace these changes, including ubiquitous tracking, accessible artificial intelligence, constant sharing, getting paid to watch ads, VR in your home, etc. I am very excited by the book; I’ve been told it is my most readable work yet."

Kelly's background helping launch Wired magazine and as its executive editor for its first seven years puts him in a unique position as futurologist. He has written for The New York Times, The Economist, Science, Time, and The Wall Street Journal among many other publications. His previous books include Out of Control, New Rules for the New Economy, Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. Currently he is Senior Maverick at Wired.

Kelly’s bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading—what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place—as this new world emerges.

The Inevitable is now available for pre-order.

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 Virtual Reality  

Jason Silva explores how the virtual world and the real world will increasingly become indistinct in the not-to-distant future in his latest Shot of Awe.

In the future reality will increasingly be a relative term.  Increasingly the real and the virtual are becoming intertwined.  Jason Silva explores this idea in his latest Shots of Awe video.

The long promise of immersive virtual reality is starting to materialize through the technologies developed by Occulus Rift and others.  Facebook's recent acquisition of the VR headset maker has opened up a lot of speculation on what the future entanglement of social media with virtual reality may yield.

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Ultra-realistic computer graphics are now common to major films and television and will soon, through their exponential progress be available in  goggles, glasses and contact lenses bringing virtual spaces directly to you.

"The dream is real when you're in it," quotes Silva from Christopher Nolan's Inception.

Augmented reality is also going to alter how what we perceive reality to be. The short film Sight for instance, showed a man in an essentially empty room transform what he saw into an immersive and interactive virtual environment.

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Looking out further, Ray Kurzeil wrote of in The Singularity Is Near, that virtual reality will be possible via nanobots in our own brains.  "You got 20 years, 25 years, these nanobots, these blood cell size devices will be going in our bodies keeping us healthy from inside," he told Big Think. "We’ll have some go inside our brains to the capillaries not invasively, there would be interacting with our biological neurons so it’ll extends our memory, our decision making faculties, put our brains on the internet and they also enable us to enter virtual reality environment from within the nervous system."

Kurzweil has also told of John Storrs Hall's idea of foglets, nanobots that serve as a utility fog, transforming as a coordinated robot cloud to objects and shapes as required.  For instance in virtual conference calls, the foglets may take the shapes of the remote participants in your work space.

"I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have."

Quoting John Perry Barlow: "I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'"

According to Silva, in the future "We may suffer from relativity sickness the way they suffer from ADD today." With virtual reality taking on many forms, there is little doubt it will be a big part of our future.



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 Artificial Intelligence  

With his latest Shot of Awe, Jason Silva looks at the intelligence explosion. According to him, intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe, and it is only a natural consequence of evolution that it will expand exponentially.

I n his latest Shot of Awe, Jason Silva looks at artificial intelligence.  Not content to talk about the current state of the art, Silva looks at how I.J. Good's intelligence explosion is the most likely result of our progress in this area of technology.

Leading with a great quote from Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants, Silva talks over a dazzling array of technological images.

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"What artificial intelligence ultimately comes down to is outsourcing our cognition into a machine," says Silva.

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"It's about amplifying the most powerful phenomenon in the universe," he continues.  "Once we can create sentience which is not bound by our biology we will literally be creating a sentience that can upgrade itself.".

Silva doesn't feel threatened by the intelligence explosion, rather, like Ray Kurzweil, he sees our future being one where we evolve with our machines.

"The human era will have ended - we will become our creations."


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 Singularity  

Jason Silva, futurist and performance philosopher, talks about how various intellectuals have described and predicted the technological Singularity.

Jason Silva, futurist and performance philosopher, talks about how various intellectuals have described and predicted the technological Singularity.

 This is an extract from his interview with London Real, mixed with music by Shulman and kinetic typography by Omega Point (Omid Pakbin).

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Silva writes on Facebook:

I love the internet! Someone gets inspired by an interview I gave, rips the audio, remixes with in Kinetic typography and shares it with the world! ‪#‎GLobalBrain‬! thanks Omid Pakbin - Make sure you watch this video: THE INEFFABLE SINGULARITY!

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 Film  

Following up on his popular "This Week In Science,"infographics, Hashem AL-ghaili is working in video media as well. He has created a short video entitled "The Future is Now" featuring Peter Diamandis and Kevin Kelly.

You love his "This Week In Science," and other infographics, now, Hashem AL-ghaili is working in video media as well. He has created this short video entitled "The Future is Now" featuring Peter Diamandis and Kevin Kelly.

This is Al-ghalli's first short video which will be followed by some other short videos he says.

So far so good!

An example of Hashem AL-ghaili's "This Week In Science" infographics

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