Category Archives: Eldering

What if individuals could easily get intimate data on the companies with whom they do business, like Big Data does to them? :- Doug.

Furby was a toy that seemed to learn English; research now interactive toys. The AIs may first invade us as toys, we will grow up with their interactivity, we will not notice. Will we also affect them? Think not AI, … Continue reading →

How might thinking machines help humans become more human, be our own through the looking glass? :- Doug.

Tell a story about how computers, cell phones, and the Web are already changing us sociologically, morally, spiritual—collectively and individually—and how are we doing it to ourselves. :- Doug.

Far-sight requires and provides a reflective lens. :- Doug.

Story about daily reflection. :- Doug.

What is the informed consent to our human futures, such as AGI, Big Data, LAW? :- Doug.

More than designing our AIs, we need to design our human stance toward Artificial General Intelligence: that is, to design HGI. :- Doug.

Futures Stories: Teasing the arc of humanity :- Doug.

In what ways are we making our grandchildren obsolete? :- Doug.

Ahead is a waterfall we’re about to shoot. It may be calm waters at the bottom, but where do we go? (If we make it?) :- Doug.

Take a “What then” approach to futures, avoid getting stuck in specifics of how we get there. This freedom of view is what the 300 years gives. :- Doug.

I’m not teaching—I’m joining you in our expedition. :- Doug.

Perhaps the most profound skill an elder can transmit is the skill to build a better world model. :- Doug.

Humanity does not, perhaps cannot, know all its purposes. Some are not quite amenable to our consciousness. :- Doug.