eric schmidt
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9 Retrofuturistic Predictions That Came True
In 2024, it feels as if our society’s technology is propelling forward in an unknown trajectory. Just this week, a person had a computer chip installed in their brain. Commentators and reporters annually try to predict where technology will go, but many fail to get it right year after year. Who gets it right? More…
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Seized Russian Super Yacht Sells For $US67 Million, Bumping Up Host Country’s Entire GDP
The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda finally unloaded a Russia superyacht seized by feds around the start of the invasion of Ukraine and it just made the tiny country a pretty penny: $US63 million in profit, or about four per cent of its Gross Domestic Product.
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The Pentagon’s Long Road to an Army of Autonomous Vehicles
Silicon Valley’s Patagonia-wearing elites aren’t the only ones interested in autonomous vehicles.
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Here’s What Henry Kissinger Thinks About the Future of Artificial Intelligence
For some, artificial intelligence represents nothing more than one tool among many aimed at increasing productivity and maximizing economic output. For others though, AI looks like more of a destination, a couple of words pointing to a tectonic shift in global society capable of ripping the ground out from under humanity’s feet. Which camp do…