This newsletter is for anyone who wants to be proactive about defining and creating their future and who, rather than feel overwhelmed by technological innovation, wants to get ahead (and stay ahead) of innovation. It’s about developing technology skills that moves beyond learning to code, and offers a more cross-displinary way of learning about emerging technologies and their impact on the world.
Corporate and Tech
Experience from Hosting a Corporate Prediction Market: Benefits Beyond the Forecast (by Ford Motor Company) [view]
User Participation in Corporate Prediction Markets (by Daniel E. O’Leary, University of Southern California) [view]
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows:
I’ve gathered a short list of free online courses that helps us to see “the big picture” and focus on the problems emerging technologies are are being created to solve as opposed to the technology itself (and even the problems that are arising as we implement technologies like algorithmic bias). I’ll be adding more to this list in parts 2 and 3 of this post in the coming weeks. It’s a great way to kick off the new year!
Companies be warned. People have troubling concerns about emerging technologies that would probably surprise your managers and executives — and these people include employees as well as customers.
Companies be warned. People have troubling concerns about emerging technologies that would probably surprise your managers and executives — and these people include employees as well as customers.
This session, The Future of Trucking and Driverless Trucks, we welcomed the awesome Allie Knight (a long-haul truck driver (since 2014) who has driven trucks across 48 states and a popular YouTuber.
For now, we should retire the question “What is the future of work?” until we are better prepared to receive the answer and, instead, ask questions that we can all wrap our brains around and potentially answer in our own, unique way (though it won’t be easy).
At a recent MoMa exhibition honoring Ken Knowlton’s lifelong work (the legendary computer graphics researcher and artist who is now 87 years young), Knowlton shared his detailed thoughts on how humanity will be impacted by AI automation in the future.
For now, we should retire the question “What is the future of work?” until we are better prepared to receive the answer and, instead, ask questions that we can all wrap our brains around and potentially answer in our own, unique way (though it won’t be easy).
We’re becoming obsessed with the idea of robots taking our jobs.
And by “we” I mean primarily western countries like the United States, the UK, and Australia where daily headlines in the mainstream press trumpet the end of life as