May 08, 2017
BuzzFeed: “Climbing Out of Facebook’s Reality Hole” 2018
#Facebook #Future Tech #Links “With augmented reality,” Zuckerberg said, “you’re going to be able to create and discover all sorts of new art around your city.” Yes, som...
February 07, 2017
Bloomberg: “Uber hires Veteran NASA Engineer to develop Flying Cars” 2018
#Car #Future Tech #Links #Uber Moore’s research ( PDF ) into so-called VTOL—short for vertical takeoff and landing, or more colloquially, flying cars—inspired at least on...
December 19, 2016
The Guardian: “Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster” 2018
#AI #Future Tech #Links The source of the problem was the system that had done so much to keep A330s safe for 15 years, across millions of miles of flying: the fly...
December 19, 2016
Verge 2021: “Humanity and AI will be inseparable” 2018
#AI #Future Tech #Links Do you think we’ll get to a point where we can ask personal assistants something like, Oh, the check engine light turned on in my car, shou...
November 07, 2016
Rolling Stone: “Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution (Pt. 1)” 2018
#AI #Future Tech #Links #Social #Software As for the dangers of AI, LeCun calls them “very distant”. He believes the notion that intelligent machines will evolve with the trappings ...
October 30, 2016
Engadget: “Elon Musk’s grand plan to colonize Mars” 2018
#Future Tech #Links #Space Musk estimated that, using traditional methods, it would cost $10 billion per person to travel to Mars, and he wants that figure to drop to...
October 25, 2016
Medium: “Apple Strategy 2017. Very important change to iPhone coming” 2018
#Apple #Future Tech #iPhone #Links The next iPhone will be, I am told, a clear piece of glass (er, Gorilla Glass sandwich with other polycarbonates for being pretty shatter r...
September 13, 2016
The New York Times: “Apple is said to be rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars” 2018
#Apple #Car #Future Tech #Google #Links Apple started looking seriously into building an electric car about two years ago. It expanded the project quickly, poaching experts in bat...
September 05, 2016
Bloomberg: “Welcome to Larry Page’s Secret Flying Car Factories” 2018
#Car #Future Tech #Google #Links Flying cars, of course, are ridiculous. Lone-wolf inventors have tried to build them for decades, with little to show for their efforts bes...
July 11, 2016
The New York Times: “Tripping Down a Virtual Reality Rabbit Hole” 2018
#Future Tech #Links But in many ways, the simulation is too immersive. After spending a few weeks with two of the most powerful V.R. devices now on the market,...
March 24, 2016
IEEE Spectrum: “Google Self-Driving Car Will Be Ready Soon for Some, in Decades for Others” 2018
#Future Tech #Google #Links But last week in a speech at Austin’s South-by-Southwest , Urmson for the first time told a different story about both the delivery date an...
December 25, 2015
Backchannel: “How Elon Musk and Y Combinator plan to stop computers from taking over” 2018
#AI #Future Tech #Links #Software I want to return to the idea that by sharing AI, we might not suffer the worst of its negative consequences. Isn’t there a risk that by mak...
December 22, 2015
Time: “Google searches for its Future” 2018
#Future Tech #Google #Links #Search In Google’s idealized version of the future, we’ll be more dependent on the company than ever before. Already we’ve replaced memorization o...