Art/Science Interaction - Case study: Silicon Valleypiero scaruffi
Presentation for the Alpbach Technology Forum of August 2014 on Art/Science and Silicon Valley. I keep updating my presentations on Silicon Valley at www.scaruffi.com/svhistory
Lectures on Silicon Valley at Beijing and other cities in China - September 2014 - excerpted from my book http://www.amazon.com/History-Silicon-Valley-Almost-3rd/dp/1500262226/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1405191978&sr=8-3&keywords=scaruffi+silicon+valley
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Checkpiero scaruffi
A lecture given at the second LAST festival (www.lastfestival.org) by Piero Scaruffi on Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Check. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Demystifying Machine Intelligence: Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon And Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence. A more updated version can be found at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Intelligence is not Artificial - Stanford, June 2016piero scaruffi
A critical analysis of the state of A.I. and predictions about its realistic future. Based on the book of the same title, see http://www.scaruffi.com/singular/ where i keep updating these slides
Art/Science Interaction - Case study: Silicon Valleypiero scaruffi
Presentation for the Alpbach Technology Forum of August 2014 on Art/Science and Silicon Valley. I keep updating my presentations on Silicon Valley at www.scaruffi.com/svhistory
Lectures on Silicon Valley at Beijing and other cities in China - September 2014 - excerpted from my book http://www.amazon.com/History-Silicon-Valley-Almost-3rd/dp/1500262226/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1405191978&sr=8-3&keywords=scaruffi+silicon+valley
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Checkpiero scaruffi
A lecture given at the second LAST festival (www.lastfestival.org) by Piero Scaruffi on Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Check. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Demystifying Machine Intelligence: Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon And Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence. A more updated version can be found at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Intelligence is not Artificial - Stanford, June 2016piero scaruffi
A critical analysis of the state of A.I. and predictions about its realistic future. Based on the book of the same title, see http://www.scaruffi.com/singular/ where i keep updating these slides
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (lite version)piero scaruffi
Alan Turing, the cultural context of his world, and what would Turing say of today's high-tech world. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Piero Scaruffi's introduction to the Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities... SMMMASH! - Part 5: Body (Jan 17, 2013)
The singularity is coming by Takuya Matsuda - CODE BLUE 2015CODE BLUE
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) extremely surpassed the human intelligence is called "Superintelligence". In a short while, the Superintelligence will be developed for the first time in our history. The Superintelligence raises an exponential development of the scientific technology and affects the human society and civilization. The time is called "Singularity (Technological Singularity)". An American futurist Ray Kurzweil, who bruits the concept of Singularity, predicts that the time will come in the year 2045. And he also predicts that the capacity of the AI will gets up to that of a human in the year 2029. I would like to call the period prior to 2045 as "Pre-Singularity". An AI used for a specific purpose is called "Narrow AI", and an AI used for general purposes is called "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)“. Today there is only Narrow AI, but it will greatly affect the human society such as Technological Unemployment in the coming future. If AGI comes into being, the influence increases dramatically. Researchers all over the world endeavors to develop the AGI. In recent years, researches of the Superintelligence are implemented in Japan. I will discuss what is the Superintelligence and political, economic, technological and military significances. I will especially introduce the roadmap for the development of the Super intelligence in Japan. I will also discuss about the possibility that Singularity will be occurred from Japan in 2020s much earlier than the year 2045.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research defines itself as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Download the file to view the presentation properly, as many animations cannot be viewed here including those on the first slide itself. You might need AC3 filter to listen to the video in the second last slide.
Explaining the triggers for launching and even demanding Smart Cities. Smart Cities are NOT an option. It is the next plateau of excellence for all cities, giving birth to a new Renaissance.
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (lite version)piero scaruffi
Alan Turing, the cultural context of his world, and what would Turing say of today's high-tech world. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Piero Scaruffi's introduction to the Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities... SMMMASH! - Part 5: Body (Jan 17, 2013)
The singularity is coming by Takuya Matsuda - CODE BLUE 2015CODE BLUE
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) extremely surpassed the human intelligence is called "Superintelligence". In a short while, the Superintelligence will be developed for the first time in our history. The Superintelligence raises an exponential development of the scientific technology and affects the human society and civilization. The time is called "Singularity (Technological Singularity)". An American futurist Ray Kurzweil, who bruits the concept of Singularity, predicts that the time will come in the year 2045. And he also predicts that the capacity of the AI will gets up to that of a human in the year 2029. I would like to call the period prior to 2045 as "Pre-Singularity". An AI used for a specific purpose is called "Narrow AI", and an AI used for general purposes is called "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)“. Today there is only Narrow AI, but it will greatly affect the human society such as Technological Unemployment in the coming future. If AGI comes into being, the influence increases dramatically. Researchers all over the world endeavors to develop the AGI. In recent years, researches of the Superintelligence are implemented in Japan. I will discuss what is the Superintelligence and political, economic, technological and military significances. I will especially introduce the roadmap for the development of the Super intelligence in Japan. I will also discuss about the possibility that Singularity will be occurred from Japan in 2020s much earlier than the year 2045.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research defines itself as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Download the file to view the presentation properly, as many animations cannot be viewed here including those on the first slide itself. You might need AC3 filter to listen to the video in the second last slide.
Explaining the triggers for launching and even demanding Smart Cities. Smart Cities are NOT an option. It is the next plateau of excellence for all cities, giving birth to a new Renaissance.
Dr. Whidden Fairfax VA | Famous Inventions that Changed the World.drwhiddenfairfaxva
Dr. Whidden Fairfax VA - Whenever any new invention is unveiled to the world, a stunning piece of new technology is made that instantly changes everything. There's certainly a lot of redesigning and experimenting when it comes to inventions, but it takes a lot longer time. Every invention has problems, and it might not be until some other inventor comes along that they get solved. Here are some inventions that changed the course of the world.
How did all of the cool things we love to use (like cellphones, the Internet, video games) really come about? How did we get involved in this big technology explosion? Find out by reading this slide show.
Chapter 10 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Renaissance Inventions
The Inenvention of the Wheel Essay
Essay on Innovation And Invention
Inventions Controversy
Ancient Greek Inventions Essay
Roman Inventions
Ancient Chinese Inventions. Essay
Accidental Inventions
The Invention Essay
Greatest Invention Essays
Egyptian Inventions : Ancient Egypt
The Decade of New Ideas and Inventions Essay
Opinion Essay on Inventions
Inventions Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Inventions of Nikola Tesla Essay
Inventions Of The 1700s Essay
The Invention of Modern Technology
Essay On Inventions
Of Hobbits, Amish, Hackers and Technology (or, is technology for humans or vi...Kaido Kikkas
Musings on the role of technology, spiced up with lessons from some very different folks (based on Pekka Himanen, Howard Rheingold and J.R.R. Tolkien).
Similar to A Brief History of Creativity from Athens to Silicon Valley (20)
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 6. Consciousness, Self, Free Will I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 3: Language, Dreams, Emotions. I keep updating these slides http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 1: Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Psychology. I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
A brief history of the notion of the Singularity, why some think it is coming soon, why some disagree, and why some are afraid of it. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
From Cosmology to Neuroscience to Rock Music and backpiero scaruffi
The universe led to a brain that led to music that led to rock music that will lead to a different brain that will lead to a different planet that will lead to a different universe.
History of Thought - Part 6: The Modern Agepiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 6: The Modern Age. for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html . I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 5: The Victorian Agepiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 5: The Victorian Age. for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 4 from the Renaissance to the Industrial REvolutionpiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 4 from the Renaissance to the Industrial REvolution for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 3 - From Rome to the Middle Agespiero scaruffi
"History of Thought - Part 3 - From Rome to the Middle Ages" for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 1 - The Ancient Western World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 1 - The Ancient Western World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
The Brain - Part 6 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC B...piero scaruffi
The Brain - Part 6 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014). I keep updating this presentation at www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Why did it happen here?
• The technology, the money and the brains were on
the East Coast and in Europe (the great electronic
research labs, the great mathematicians, Wall
Street, etc)
• The great universities were on the East Coast
(MIT, Harvard, Moore School, Princeton,
Columbia), and in Europe (Cambridge)
• Bell Labs, RCA Labs, IBM Labs
• Britain and Germany won most of the Nobels
• Transistor, computer, etc all invented elsewhere
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Why did it happen here?
• The official history of Silicon Valley
– Defense/DARPA
– Fred Terman at Stanford and HP
– William Shockley’s lab
– Fairchild/Intel/semiconductors
– Xerox PARC, Apple and personal computing
– Unix, Internet, Relational databases, Videogames
– The dotcoms
– Google, Facebook, Oracle, Intel, HP
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Why Silicon Valley?
• Until the 1950s the Bay Area was mainly
famous for
– Eccentric artists/writers
• Student protests of 1964
• Hippies
• Black Panther Party (1966)
• Monterey’s rock festival (1967)
• "Whole Earth Catalog“ (1968)
• The first “Earth Day” (1970)
• Gay Pride Parade (1970)
• Survival Research Labs (1978)
• New-age movement (1980s)
• Burning Man (1986)
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Why Silicon Valley?
The first major wave of
immigration of young educated
people from all over the world
took place during the hippy era
(“Summer of Love”)
The first major wave of technology
was driven by independents,
amateurs and hobbyists (From
ham radio to the Homebrew
Computer Club)
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Why Silicon Valley?
• Anti-corporate sentiment
• The start-ups implement principles
of the hippy commune
• SRI Intl and Xerox PARC:
computation for the masses,
augmented intelligence
Xerox PARC
The first mouse
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Why Silicon Valley?
• The Bay Area recasts both Unix and the
Internet as idealistic grass-roots
movements
• Young educated people wanted to
change the world
• They did
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Why Silicon Valley?
• Dysfunctional synergy between two opposite
poles
– The rational and the irrational
– Technologists and anti-technologists
– Hippies and engineers
– Amateurs and corporations
– Nerds and outlaws (the "traitors", Jobs,
Ellison, Zuckerberg, hackers)
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Why Silicon Valley?
• What Silicon Valley does best
– Not invented here: computer, transistor,
integrated circuit, robots, Artificial
Intelligence, programming languages,
databases, videogames, Internet, personal
computers, World-wide web, search
engines, social media, smartphones,
wearable computing, …
– Invented here: disrupting products
12. 12
Why Silicon Valley?
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes, but in having new
eyes” (Marcel Proust)
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Creativity
• Why do we value innovation,
creativity and originality?
• The history of human
civilization is about removing
the unpredictable from both
the environment and society
• Humans are genetically
programmed to break the
rules from a very young age
• The biggest reservoirs of
creativity are to be found in
the slums and villages of the
Third World
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Creativity
• Creativity's peaks often correspond with periods
of great instability: classical Athens (at war 60%
of the time), 12th-13th century Venice (built on a
mosquito-infected lagoon by homeless refugees),
the Renaissance (Italy split in dozens of small
states and engulfed in endemic warfare), the 20th
century (two World Wars and a Cold War).
16. 16
Creativity
• Peaks in the humanities often coincide with
peaks in the sciences, and vice versa
• Wealth is not a cause or precondition, but
an effect of the creative boom
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What is unique about humans?
• Animals live the same life of their parents
• Humans are the only species whose life
style changes from generation to generation
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What is unique about humans?
• Children disobey, teenagers are rebels
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What is unique about humans?
• Animals only “innovate” when there is a
genetic mutation
• Humans innovate all the time
Beaver civilization over the millennia
Human civilization over the millennia
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What is unique about humans?
• Art is pervasive in nature (eg birds make nests and
sing, bees dance, spiderwebs, humpback whale
songs, etc)
• Each animal has the same aesthetic, generation
after generation
• Human aesthetic changes from generation to
generation
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What is unique about humans?
…….
Human aesthetic over the centuries
Spider aesthetic over the centuries
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What is unique about humans?
• Being creative is the natural state of the human
mind
• Creativity is what truly sets humans apart from
other living beings
• It is unnatural for the human race to be creative
only in one field
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Welcome to the 21st Century
• CP Snow’s “Two Cultures” (1959)
– a widening gap between the two cultures of
contemporary society: sciences and humanities
• The age of hyper-specialization
– “What do you want to be when you grow up”?
• The age of accelerating progress…
• …or not?
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Accelerating progress?
• One century ago, within a relatively short period
of time, the world adopted:
– the car,
– the airplane,
– the telephone,
– the radio
– the record
– cinema
• while at the same time the visual arts went through
– Impressionism,
– Cubism
– Expressionism
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Accelerating progress?
• while at the same time science came up with
– Quantum Mechanics
– Relativity
• while at the same time the office was
revolutionized by
– cash registers,
– adding machines,
– typewriters
• while at the same time the home was
revolutionized by
– dishwasher,
– refrigerator,
– air conditioning
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Accelerating progress?
• There were only 5 radio stations in 1921 but
already 525 in 1923
• The USA produced 11,200 cars in 1903, but
already 1.5 million in 1916
• By 1917 a whopping 40% of households had a
telephone in the USA up from 5% in 1900.
• The Wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903:
during World War I (1915-18) more than 200,000
planes were built
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Accelerating progress?
• On the other hand today:
– 44 years after the Moon landing we still
haven't sent a human being to any planet
– The only supersonic plane (the Concorde)
has been retired
– We still drive cars, fly on planes, talk in
phones, use the same kitchen appliances
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Accelerating progress?
• We chronically underestimate progress in
previous centuries because most of us are
ignorant about those eras.
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Decelerating progress?
• Today there is a lot of change
• But change is not necessarily progress
Insert here a picture of a
notice from your bank that the
policy for your account has
been “upgraded”, resulting in
additional charges
Insert here a picture of the
“new improved” release of
the software application that
you have been using for years
with no problems and that
now causes a system crash
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Decelerating progress?
• Scientific memes are understood
only by science world
• Artistic memes are understood only
by the art world
• Not CP Snow’s “two cultures” but
the “two gaps”
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Decelerating progress?
• Science is often slave to an agenda of
self-replicating research
• Technology is often slave to marketing,
profit, fashion
• Art is slave to critics, museums and
galleries
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Decelerating intelligence?
• The Turing Test was asking “when can machines be said
to be as intelligent as humans?”
• This “Turing point” can be achieved by
1. Making machines smarter, or
2. Making humans dumber
HOMO MACHINE
IQ
HOMO MACHINE
IQ
1. 2.