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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Stuart Whatley |Nicholas Agar
aidogeElon MuskFuturismHG WellsSocietyUS “The government knows AGI is coming”, the New York Times’s Ezra Klein tells us, “and we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare”. We’ve all heard of these prognostications by now.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Nicholas Agar
Opinion: The Economist magazine asks whether Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Trump gamble’ of discontinuing fact-checking posts on Meta will pay off. We in Aotearoa should understand that good news for Meta’s bottom line could be a disaster for us. We live at a time when everything seems to be happening all at once. There is an incoming US President with an appetite for headlines and a stated desire to acquire new territories – Greenland, Panama, perhaps Canada.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Nicholas Agar
Opinion: Big Tech is choking the life out of New Zealand journalism. The advertising monopoly run by platforms like Meta and Google starves local media of revenue, making it harder to pay journalists and sustain quality reporting.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrew Nikiforuk |Nicholas Agar |Bhabani Nayak |Ugo Bardi
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AIRay KurzweilPenguin (2024)Ray Kurzweil, who is 76, wears the latest in Silicon Valley fashion: a Mickey Mouse watch, colourful suspenders and a righteous belief that humans should be able to live forever. For two decades the inventor, futurist, computer geek and Google engineer has expressed an almost religious desire to meld with the consciousness of machines, or what he calls the Singularity.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
delo.si | Nicholas Agar |Stuart Whatley
»Preprečevanje staranja in zdravljenje raka bosta pravzaprav enostavna,« trdi David Sinclair, raziskovalec staranja na Univerzi Harvard. Podobno tudi Elon Musk še naprej zatrjuje, da bo kmalu peljal ljudi na Mars in da bodo robotski taksiji v množični uporabi. Velike korporacije so si zastavile cilje glede ogljične nevtralnosti, ki temeljijo na zelo optimističnih napovedih o tehnoloških možnostih odstranjevanja ogljika.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thejakartapost.com | Nicholas Agar |Stuart Whatley
“It’s actually going to be easy to cure aging and cancer,” insists David Sinclair, a researcher on aging at Harvard University. Similarly, Elon Musk continues to claim that he will soon land humans on Mars and deploy robotaxis en masse.
Major corporations have set carbon-neutrality targets based on highly optimistic forecasts about the potential of carbon-removal technologies.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
manilatimes.net | Stuart Whatley |Nicholas Agar
HAMILTON — "It's actually going to be easy to cure aging and cancer," insists David Sinclair, a researcher on aging at Harvard University. Similarly, Elon Musk continues to claim that he will soon land humans on Mars and deploy robotaxis en masse. Major corporations have set carbon-neutrality targets based on highly optimistic forecasts about the potential of carbon-removal technologies.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
confidencial.digital | Nicholas Agar
“En realidad, va a ser fácil curar el envejecimiento y el cáncer”, insiste David Sinclair, investigador sobre el envejecimiento en la Universidad de Harvard. En la misma sintonía, Elon Musk sigue afirmando que pronto hará que seres humanos aterricen en Marte y desplegará robotaxis en masa. Las grandes empresas han fijado objetivos de neutralidad de carbono basados en previsiones muy optimistas sobre el potencial de las tecnologías de eliminación del carbono.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Nicholas Agar |Stuart Whatley
“En realidad, va a ser fácil curar el envejecimiento y el cáncer”, insiste David Sinclair, investigador sobre el envejecimiento en la Universidad de Harvard. En la misma sintonía, Elon Musk sigue afirmando que pronto hará que seres humanos aterricen en Marte y desplegará robotaxis en masa. Las grandes empresas han fijado objetivos de neutralidad de carbono basados en previsiones muy optimistas sobre el potencial de las tecnologías de eliminación del carbono.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Nicholas Agar
Amid a confounding mix of hype and genuinely valuable innovation, today’s entrepreneurs, scientists, and other experts betray an abiding belief that technological progress will make us healthier, wealthier, and wiser. But there are strong reasons why we should not bet everything on future world-changing breakthroughs.
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