DoD Chief Strategy Officer Jinyoung Englund will be speaking on what control by China would mean and whether the United States can catch up.
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Sidelsky, Larson tells us, thinks our problems stem not from the machines themselves but from the stories we’ve told about them.
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Seattle’s streets pulse with data. But walk those same streets and it becomes clear: the life has drained out of the space between the data points.
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The spectrum used for wireless communication and radar is filling up fast and spectrum sharing offers a solution to the looming crisis.
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While spectrum “auctions” generate significant revenue, they raise concerns about fairness, as the big players outbid others, potentially stifling innovation.
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Reflecting on his 100-hour workweeks and legal battles, he cautions against solo ventures without financial and legal backing.
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And the question we should ask is, given American history, why should anyone assume that the pessimists are right and he is wrong?
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If technology in the next two decades is the kind of thing you need to know for your future, you can hear from people who are helping make it happen at COSM.
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Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia, will be speaking at COSM, Friday, November 1, at 10:30 am. His topic?: The increasingly pressing matter of preserving our knowledge. He should know. Originally a co-founder of Wikipedia, he has become increasingly critical of its role as a go-to source. In 2021, he warned, “If only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to shore up their power,” But let’s go back a bit Sanger, who has a Phd in philosophy (2000), was approached by entrepreneur Jimmy Wales that year to come to work for him on a project that evolved Read More ›
Metcalfe’s Law of IT growth begins with the fact that one fax machine — for example — is useless. Two help a bit but millions of them made a difference.
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Effective altruism is a kind of therapy, a type of self-help for the angst-ridden techno-elites trying to grapple with human suffering and limitations.
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The most prominent example of unintended uses I can think of came about with the development of the internet itself.
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I don’t believe that economists intended to create a monster when they coined the term “general purpose technology”, but they have.
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Information is immaterial by nature which makes it difficult to predict.
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This approach to government — a hybrid of totalitarian aspirations and advanced AI surveillance techniques — has been called neo-totalitarianism.
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Africans are lured abroad in hopes of a job, maybe in high tech even, and it sometimes turns out that the job is — organ donor.
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Some are concerned about the creation of genetic weapons, a bioterror tool to target certain ethnic groups.
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The Biden administration is considering banning TikTok in the United States if the platform’s parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it. The news arrives amidst growing concerns over national security and Chinese espionage tactics, particularly in light of the “spy balloon” that was shot down off the American east coast in February. ByteDance is a Chinese company, and as such, is subject to disclose its information to the Chinese Communist Party. Today, more than half of American states have placed bans on state-issued devices out of privacy and security concerns. Texas representative Paul Michael McCaul said, TikTok is a modern-day Trojan horse of the [Chinese Communist Party], used to surveil and exploit Americans’ personal information. It’s a spy baloon for your Read More ›
The graffiti on the bathroom wall at the university said there would be a gathering in honor of the people who had died in an apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Bathrooms usually do not have surveillance cameras, so this announcement would probably go unnoticed by censors. It is better than risking punishment by posting on social media. In another city, Chinese citizens discretely shared information about the location of a vigil for the Urumqi victims on WeChat in the guise of dinner plans. A number of people died in the fire, whose toll was likely inflated because emergency vehicles were unable to access the building due to zero-Covid measures. Social media posts showed doors that were barred shut and barricades Read More ›
At the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou where thousands of employees walked out on October 29, protests broke out on November 23. They were led by new hires staying on a campus dormitory after they learned that they would have to work an additional two months at lower pay before they receive their promised bonuses for coming to Foxconn to cover for the October exodus. Additionally, workers complained of inadequate food and fear of Covid exposure. Workers were offered 25,000 yuan (US$3,500) for two months of work, a 50% increase on the posted maximum wage. When they learned of changes in their agreement, employees at the dorm responded by pulling down outdoor tents (for Covid testing) and destroying a surveillance camera. Read More ›