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Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question
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How can you get individuals to experience a collective flow state – going into deeper contemplation and losing a sense of time?
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Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is “why create a mind?”
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The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]
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People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]
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There’s an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]
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You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.
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As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.
An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money – $1 million per mile – as a sea wall. So as an infrastructure investment, it’s a tie. But when […]
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We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail […]
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Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.
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Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach. He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has […]
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Free always wins over something that costs something.
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In the United States we have shamefully convinced most high school students that they either need to go to Harvard or they need to go to McDonald’s.
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We are seeing students and teachers using technology-enabled tools that make learning more real time, more powerful, and it gives them access to things they wouldn’t have had access to […]
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Insurance is what you buy when you don’t know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I’ll crash my car. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. So I’m going […]
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Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.
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Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.
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The hacker Kevin Mitnick says he treated his fugitive status like a big video game.
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Bayes’ Rule is a formalization of how to change your mind when you learn new information about the world or have new experiences.