Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

“Here on Earth, I suspect that we are going to want to regulate the application of genetic modification and cyborg techniques on grounds of ethics and prudence. This links with another topic I want to come to later about the risks of new technology. If we imagine these people living as pioneers on Mars, they are out of range of any terrestrial regulation. Moreover, they’ve got a far higher incentive to modify themselves or their descendants to adapt to this very alien and hostile environment.

They will use all the techniques of genetic modification, cyborg techniques, maybe even linking or downloading themselves into machines, which, fifty years from now, will be far more powerful than they are today. The posthuman era is probably not going to start here on Earth; it will be spearheaded by these communities on Mars. ” – Martin Rees

Martin John Reesis a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.

Recorded: July 2017
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SparkCognition founder and CEO Amir Husain discusses the many uses of artificial intelligence.

Recorded: Nov 29th, 2017
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Dr. George Church, renowned researcher and visionary in the fields of genetic sequencing, synthetic biology, genome engineering and evolutionary biology, visited UC Berkeley and gave this talk about the future of CRISPR technology and its impact on society.

Recorded: January 26, 2017
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Jeffrey Hawkins is the American founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002, founded Numenta in 2005 and published On Intelligence describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain.
Recorded At MIT, Dec 15th, 2017
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Geoffrey Hinton is an Engineering Fellow at Google where he manages the Brain Team Toronto, which is a new part of the Google Brain Team and is located at Google’s Toronto office at 111 Richmond Street. Brain Team Toronto does basic research on ways to improve neural network learning techniques. He is also the Chief Scientific Adviser of the new Vector Institute and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto.

Recorded: December 4th, 2017
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Recorded: July 19th, 2017
Ramez Naam is an American professional technologist and science fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the Nexus Trilogy.

Technological progress makes the world better but also brings new challenges, say Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, faculty members at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who have studied the impact of technology on economies for years.
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