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

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.

What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us — and what we can do in response.

Still confused about bitcoin? Don’t know what cryptocurrency is?

"The best thing to do is to go out and try it, make it yourself from your own hands,"

The hurdle of turning the above scenario into a reality seemed unsurmountable a handful of years ago. But, thanks to the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, it’s an imminent reality.

The town of Philomath, Oregon has just approved the testing of robotic deliveries on public rights-of-way.

Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.

Saving the planet, fixing healthcare, replacing conventional currency–there is apparently nothing that the shared-database technology known as blockchains can’t fix.

The gaining momentum of digital currencies and the Chinese reinvention of a financial system led not by traditional banks but by technology companies are potent signs that Western financial architecture of the 20th century may not long survive the 21st.

The war for tech supremacy is moving to newer technologies such as augmented reality and voice assistants, as giant internet companies grasp for an ever-fleeting portion of people’s time.