Today’s flavor of capitalism is increasingly about the flow of data and arbitrage determined by who has it,who doesn’t and the who can process it.
New Capitalism ?
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How island geeks work.
The Blockchain and us (2017)
While I see Bitcoin as a game changer for Fintech, the blockchain is the real revolution.
Still interested in College ? Study either liberal arts, biotech or a robotic engineering.
if you you still interested in college for yourself or advising someone else, then take
- Liberal arts where you study human nature
- Biotech as we are still carbon based entities
- Engineering involving robotics – techproresearch.com
Obsolete
The reality……
General Motors acquires OSVehicle to build EDIT, a new modular self-driving car, in white-label
Not sure how I feel about this.
Today, OSVehicle is announcing its acquisition by General Motors Company. GM already bought another Y Combinator backed company Cruise Automation in March last year to focus on key long-term technologies such as autonomous driving technology and vehicle safety.
GM will now utilize OSVehicle’s open source hardware expertise to develop EDIT, a self-driving car, based on modular version of Chevy Bolt M1 platform. This modular technology was developed jointly with OSVehicle, to enable the easy replacement of key components such as electric motor and battery pack, which will allow vehicles to last 10X longer than traditional cars.
Modularity also allows the hardware upgrade of hardware stacks for self-driving and connected-cars, helping services like ride sharing. This is another strategic move made by GM towards “mobility as-a-service” after investing 500M $ in Lyft and launching Maven, GM’s own car sharing service in January 2016.
How to Become Relevant when a Robot Takes Your Job | Pablos Holman | TEDxLA
The Future Doesn’t Need You – How to Become Relevant when a Robot Takes Your Job
In this talk, Pablos dares you to imagine the possibilities in what once seemed impossible: a harmonious co-existence of humans and robots: Robots taking over your jobs and why they should; how this can trigger fear in humans and why it shouldn’t; redefining happiness; solving world problems like eliminating disease; a personal narrative of parenting that will bring you to your knees; and the responsibility of humans in all of this.
My first model in OpenSCAD
Was at a Cafe and thought, screw it. I will code generic cup in OpenSCAD as a skill building exercice.
difference()
{
cylinder(20,7,10,0,$fn=200) ;
translate([0,0,2]) cylinder(20,7,10,0,$fn=200);
}
EU is looking into the need to give robots/AI person hood in the eye of the law…
MEPs have called for the adoption of comprehensive rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots.
The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a “new industrial” robot revolution.
It looks at whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons”.
Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends.
Meanwhile users should be able to use robots “without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm”, it states.
Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.
But questioned the need to give future robots legal status.
[via BBC]
An art project on e-waste
Behind the Smart World from Andreas Zingerle on Vimeo.