VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things

In tests, the artificial hacker was substantially better than its human competitors, composing and distributing more phishing tweets than humans, and with a substantially better conversion rate.

"What is going to be created will effectively be a god,"

"When I tried to donate bitcoin to fund a new endowment at UW, I ran into a brick wall because Wyoming’s banking laws prevent bitcoin exchanges from doing business in Wyoming. I’d like to help fix that."

A key Issue I didn’t mention with the law of accelerating returns is: not only does the hardware progress exponentially, but so does the software.

It is still very early, but the era of ambient computing is slowly taking shape, whether in the form of the voice-driven smart speaker on your kitchen countertop, or via the IoT (Internet of Things) devices and appliances that are designed to blend into the background.

The breakthrough and ones like it could help propel the grocery business into the modern era. The industry wants to make buying food online as simple and commonplace as purchasing clothes or consumer electronics.

Blockchain can change the very economic system of the Internet itself, much similar to the processes in the offline world that ended the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for the birth of Capitalism.

Just as electricity transformed the way industries functioned in the past century, artificial intelligence — the science of programming cognitive abilities into machines — has the power to substantially change society in the next 100 years.

The FBI owns 1/5% of the world’s bitcoins

Google and others, fighting for a small pool of researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts.