The+Future

=Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking = The World Science Festival started in 2008. It "gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries." The following video is a panel discusses the brings together experts to talk about brain, the mind, consciousness—and how human beings are beginning to inter interface with technology.


=WATCH FOR Thursday, February 22, 2018 = media type="youtube" key="f2CIU9oslxA" width="560" height="315" (From June 2010 Festival)

= = =The Spark of Genius: World Science Festival =

Watch for Thursday, February 15, 2018
media type="youtube" key="yfYOkvQNpsA" width="560" height="315" (From June 2015 Festival) (around 39 minutes in, ethical considerations come to the fore) (showing brain activity around 50 min) We also use Adderall/Modafinil/Ritalin to enhance performance—drugs are for ADHD/sleeping disorders. "Tiger Parents" push their children—good thing? bad thing?

Future Technology
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=[|CBS 60 Minutes on AI (2016)] =

Watch for Wednesday Sept 6, 2017
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">media type="youtube" key="k7hxi4Aj7W0" width="560" height="315" <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is not the best link, but to watch the program at CBS, you have to have an account. The discussion of artificial intelligence was the first segment of CBS 60 Minutes on October 9, 2016. It talks about the computer system Watson that won Jeopardy in 2011. Now Watson has been to medical school and is being used with cancer patients. Segment runs about 30 minutes.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Other Interesting Resources:

 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Physicist Michio Kaku—Digital Medicine (2016)] **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Corning Glass Envisions the Future **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Watson the Computer (2011) **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Current state of AI (2016)] **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|NY Times TimeLine (History of Technology)] **

=<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Double Edged Sword—Is Technology Becoming Dangerous? =

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Elon Musk Wants Satellites To Swarm The Skies]
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">There are currently 1419 active satellites orbiting Earth, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> =<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Frankenstein & The Future = <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Frankenstein Spark Notes Summary] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Crash Course Discussion] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Is Artificial Intelligence a Frankenstein?] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|What is consciousness—Ray Kurzweil] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Who/What is conscious—Ray Kurzweil] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Ted Talk—Ray Kurzweil] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Interview with Kurzweil (2012)] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Singularity Documentary] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Science Makes First Black Hole] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Is a "Singularity" Near? (Machine Intelligence)]

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Life Span: Are we on the verge of living forever?
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Living 1000 Years, 2012 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">BBC — Living 1000 Years, 2004 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">TED — Living 1000 Years, 2009 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">CBS — Living 150 Years, 2012 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|10 Billion people by 2050?]

=<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Futurist Ray Kurzweil talking about future—exponential growth = media type="youtube" key="zihTWh5i2C4" width="560" height="315"

=<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Some Movie Trailers: =

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">2001 A Space Odyssey
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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">I, Robot, 20o4
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="rL6RRIOZyCM" width="560" height="315"

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Truman Show 1998
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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Matrix, 1999
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=<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What About Dreams? =

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Inception 2010
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