The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Saved by Kyle Steinike and
What people actually do with your invention, however well intentioned, can never be guaranteed.
Then as now, it takes only one breakthrough to change the trajectory of a technology.
Altos Labs, which has raised $3 billion, more start-up funding than for any previous biotech venture, is one company seeking to find effective anti-aging technologies. Its chief scientist, Richard Klausner, argues, “We think we can turn back the clock” on human mortality. Focusing on techniques of “rejuvenation programming,” the company aims to
... See moreEventually, the technology matures, becoming embedded and widely available.
In the book’s first two sections, we saw that a wave of powerful technologies is about to crash over us. Now it’s time to consider what this means and glimpse a world after the deluge.
moving fast and breaking things—has never been less welcome.
The challenge is in advancing what AI developers call hierarchical planning, stitching multiple goals and subgoals and capabilities into a seamless process toward a singular end.
In a few decades, I predict most physical products will look like services. Zero marginal cost production and distribution will make it possible. The migration to the cloud will become all-encompassing, and the trend will be spurred by the ascendancy of low-code and no-code software, the rise of bio-manufacturing, and the boom in 3-D printing.