“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”–Elon Musk   One might easily say about the notion of the ethics of disruptive technology–much like Mark Twain’s misattributed missive about the weather–that “everybody talks about it, but nobody d

“The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt”–Peter Diamandis   If you want to know the raison d’etre of the X Prize, you need go no further than the Peter Diamandis

“Constant togetherness is fine–but only for Siamese twins.”–Victoria Billings   As the internet of things, edge computing, and 5G connectivity all converge, we move relentlessly toward a world of ambient computing.   It will be always on, ever around us a

“A gracefull and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”–Pindar    The returns are in.  The 2019 Undoing Aging conference, held in Berlin, March 28-30,  was a smash hit.  500 attendees (a sellout) heard the latest on dozens of lines of researc

“Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm.  It’s about doing more good.” ―Jochen Zeitz   In January of 2017 the first two episodes of Seeking Delphi™ featured David Wood, chair of the London Futurists, on his book The Abolition of Aging.  Wood’s

“I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.”  ― Tom Robbins   Being in the category that society generally classifies as “old people,” I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry when I look at the cartoon to the

 “They say the Universe is expanding.  That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright   Autonomous vehicles? Flying cars? The concepts are exciting, but the truth is:  most of us will still be driving manually on the ground for many years to come.  And

“The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”–Elon Musk “We wanted flying cars; what we got is 140 characters.”–Peter Thiel      Well, guess what?  We now

Any and all subject matter related to the future--the long…

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