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Beyond Web 2.0: How Tech will Change the World

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Jynx Avatar
Jynx
Posts: 2
Posted: 06.21.10, 02:48 AM
@Pete
Cheer up Charlie. We're not necessarily doomed
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gabriele
Posts: 2
Posted: 03.27.09, 12:53 PM
It's a great talk. He analyse the consequences of technological achievements in a very interesting way, mixing western and eastern philosopy with an analitical approach. The problem is that, since he is a Japanese, you have to consider carefully some parts of his speech, especially toward the end, in order to understand what he really means.
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PetePassword
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Posted: 01.15.08, 04:56 AM
Trouble is, people immersed in technology as this guy is, are totally unaware that the world will not be the same as they think it is now, and high tech will be irrelevent once climate change makes it hostile to humans. Sea level rise alone is going to inundate most major cities and centres of technology. Violent and unpredictable weather events will make food production for the enormous human population impossible and famine will reduce numbers drastically. It may well become impossible for all but a very few survivors, life is going to get much tougher.
But the techno-nerds don't see it, because they are immersed in their own little virtual dream world where such things as floods, starvation and disease don't figure. Within the next 30-40 years human life may well become extinct. We blew it, and no amount of fantasising about the future of the net is going to change the harsh reality. It's fiddling while Earth burns.
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michael cronan
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Posted: 01.08.08, 12:38 AM
This is a brilliant presentation of a very interesting thought domain: Dialectic Philosophy; Complexity Sciences; and Collective Psychology.
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