Dec 09 2025
Most people feel the world speeding up. But very few realize how dramatic the next few years will be. AI is improving at a pace we’ve never seen before. Major leaps are arriving every few months. Early human trials in longevity science are beginning. Robotics, biotech, and nano-scale medical technologies are converging in ways that …
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Nov 18 2025
Pluribus, Hive Minds, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves About AI I’m watching Apple’s TV+’s Pluribus series – and while it’s fascinating, it has a clear bias that I think watchers of this very popular series should be aware of (warning; mild spoilers in this article). Pluribus lands with a simple but unsettling premise:a mysterious …
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Sep 17 2025
Extreme changes being brought on by advances in AI can create negative mental and emotional impacts. Screen addiction from AI social media feeds can creep up on you! Meanwhile, just total time being on screens can separate us from our humanness. Meditation can be the ideal “antidote” to the angst brought on by AI …
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May 17 2025
New tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and robots promise to make lots of things cheaper. Futurist David Shapiro says anything these smart machines can “touch”—software, basic office work, factory goods, even some foods—will keep dropping in cost. But a few items tied to land, rare minerals, or top computer chips may stay pricey. Picture a barbell: …
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Apr 18 2025
AI will lead to giving you more time in your day AND more days in your life!
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Nov 19 2024
We are at a crucial crossroad for humanity. What can we do now to shape it towards AI enhanced future?
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Nov 14 2024
I was looking at the amazing computational advances of Nvidia’s new A200 chips, which will enable “agentic AI”. Agentic AI is where you can assign an AI assistant to independently take on an assigned task which could involve multiple steps and “modalities” i.e. text/visual/video/audio, access the internet live, check it results and report back – …
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Feb 09 2019
it is good to seek out,and learn from thought leaders who are in touch with the tremendous impacts that technological advances may have on our lives and our world
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May 22 2014
Essentially in every crucial area that retirement planning makes assumptions, dramatic changes are coming. I believe that how we think about and plan our retirement is about to be completely undone.
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May 04 2014
“It’s the idea that if everyone would just, in a one-time event, dedicate one percent of their net worth to life-extension science, that would be something like a trillion dollars- we would almost certainly be able to, in say ten to fifteen years’ time, conquer most diseases and probably eliminate human death itself.” Zoltan Istvan
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