explorerlesfuturs: mai 2016

lundi 30 mai 2016

Singularity Université à Genève

La Singularity University débarque à Carouge, Genève. Buts: enseigner le futur, les progrès technologique, infléchir la tendance actuelle de la recherche robotique (90 % au service des applications guerrières...). Pour en savoir plus:

http://www.letemps.ch/economie/2016/05/30/universite-enseigne-futur-ouvre-une-antenne-geneve

Les rêves futuristes des années 70

Cela ne vous rappelle pas un film SF?
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/29/architecture/nasa-ames-oneill-space-colonies-1975/index.html
Réponse: Elysium (2013)

jeudi 26 mai 2016

Le métro de demain ou d'après-demain

Génial ce convoi sur rail qui circule au-dessus des voitures: https://www.facebook.com/CollectiveEvolutionPage/videos/10154185262878908/?pnref=story
voir aussi sur CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/27/autos/china-bus-future/index.html

mercredi 18 mai 2016

Le credo des transhumanistes pour les prochaines décades

David Wood parle:

"We transhumanists have high hopes for the transformations in human circumstances that might be delivered by ongoing technology improvements over the next few decades. All being well, green technology will provide an abundance of clean, renewable energy. Molecular manufacturing will provide big advances in the creation and the recycling of material goods. Synthetic biology will deliver significantly better food. Rejuvenation technology will deliver radical healthy life extension. Cognotechnology will provide leaps in multiple dimensions of intelligence: rational, emotional, social, and spiritual. Robotics and AI will free everyone from the drudgery of unsatisfying working conditions. Virtual reality will enable astonishing new experiences as we journey through previously unimagined internal space. At least, that is what we believe to be possible.

But the technology that has the biggest significance over that time period may differ from all that I’ve mentioned so far. It has been given the name “collabtech”: technology that enables better collaboration.

Collabtech is what produces the “wisdom of crowds” rather than the “madness of crowds”. (Both phenomena exist!) With good collabtech, the best ideas of a community rapidly rise to prominence, and people are able to build quickly on each other’s breakthroughs. With bad collabtech, discussion is dominated by rumours, wishful thinking, exaggerations, evasions, and factionalism. With bad collabtech, solutions exist for the hard problems that a community is facing, but these solutions aren’t recognised. In these circumstances, we don’t know what we know.

Each of the technologies I mentioned in the opening paragraph is subject to grave challenges and difficulties in the decades ahead – including engineering challenges, legislative challenges, cultural challenges, and political challenges. Complicating things further, many hostile critics predict doom and gloom if these technologies are developed too quickly, and they are stirring up opposition.

I believe that, with the cooperation of enough engineers, entrepreneurs, designers, educators, and integrators, these challenges can all be solved. In the end, many hands will make light work. But that collaboration won’t come easily. That’s why we need improved collabtech.

In practical terms, collabtech includes artificial intelligence that carries out real-time fact-checking. It includes wikis that actively highlight the best understanding that a community has about the risks and opportunities faced, and about the tools to address these risks and opportunities. And it includes improved processes for debating and voting.

My belief in the importance of better collabtech has led me to support the Humanity+ project H+Pedia. H+Pedia defines its purpose on its front page,https://hpluspedia.org, as “to spread accurate, accessible, non-sensational information about transhumanism and futurism among the general public”. Whilst still at an early stage, H+Pedia is already approaching 1,000 pages of information, and has become a useful dynamic repository for information in a number of areas. This is an important project which will benefit from wider participation from supporters of transhumanism worldwide. Please take a look at it and consider becoming involved. Your input could help us distinguish and evolve more quickly the best transhumanist ideas from those which just sound good."

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