Year: 2022

FRAUD IN 3 TRILLION PER DAY MARKET."Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has suspended two traders in connection to a growing investigation into the possible manipulation of foreign exchange rates. The reports are that executives at Citigroup, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered have agreed to be placed on leave, but none has been accused of any wrongdoing. Others include Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Barclays." (Nov 1, 2013)" " http://lnkd.in/dmtmbsF View in LinkedIn

GROK, founded by Palm Pilot inventor, Jeff Hawkins. “Google’s mission statement is to organize the world’s information. I like to think of our mission as understanding the world’s data." "He has developed a unified theory of the brain’s inner workings and created algorithms for applying the theory to computer science. What’s more, he has open-sourced his work so anyone can use the algorithms and software to build their own machine learning systems — for free."" " http://lnkd.in/dG-uuMk View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED INTELLIGENCE. "Whether or not an intelligence explosion occurs depends on three factors. The first, accelerating factor, is the new intelligence enhancements made possible by each previous improvement... Further advances will become more and more complicated... Each improvement must be able to beget at least one more improvement... Finally, there is the issue of a hard upper limit. Absent quantum computing, eventually the laws of physics will prevent any further improvements."" " http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENCE AND ECONOMICS. "Dramatic changes in the rate of economic growth have occurred because of technological advancement. The economy doubled every 250,000 years from the Paleolithic era until the Neolithic. The new agricultural economy doubled every 900 years... beginning with the Industrial Revolution, economic output doubled every fifteen years... If the rise of superhuman intelligence causes a similar revolution... one would expect the economy to double at least quarterly."" " http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q View in LinkedIn

RUPTURE OF HUMAN HISTORY. Google's Ray Kurzweil concludes that "technological progress follows a pattern of exponential growth, following...the "Law of Accelerating Returns". Whenever technology approaches a barrier, new technologies will surmount it. He predicts paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to "technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history". http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q View in LinkedIn

UPLOADING YOUR MIND. "We'll be uploading our entire minds to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years - an event known as singularity. Our fragile human body parts will be replaced by machines by the turn of the century," leading to human immortality. http://lnkd.in/dAM2VhW years.html#ixzz2j7F52oht View in LinkedIn

BILLION FOLD SMARTER. "Based on conservative estimates of the amount of computation you need to functionally simulate a human brain, we'll be able to expand the scope of our intelligence a billion-fold.' (Google's Ray Kurzweil)." " http://lnkd.in/dW2DUGT View in LinkedIn

FUTURE SHOCK. "In 1970, computers were still primitive, but the PC and the global internet were on the horizon. That year, Toffler published Future Shock, in which he argued that the rate of technological change would soon become so great that people would be left disoriented, disconnected and alienated, suffering the eponymous disease. Toffler argued that civilization was about to move from the industrial age to the superindustrial age – now more commonly known as the information age."" " http://lnkd.in/dJVR5w6 View in LinkedIn

WE LIVE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES (I). We have created life, which may be the single most astonishing achievement of the century. Biology is in the Programming Epoch, making the fruits of evolution infinitely plastic to meet complex human needs. We are making test-tube organs, ending the organ black market, and inevitably any sanitized blood and immune cell for medical purposes. View in LinkedIn

WE LIVE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES (II). We are in the Post-Genomic era, trying to apply this mountain of genetic information. We will carry our genetic code on our smart phones. Personalized Medicine will change the medical paradigm to patient-centric and preventative, not reactive, care. It will matching our personal genetics to the correct drug. Digital medicine offers cost efficiencies, with point-of-care data and diagnostic access, and efficiencies of remote solutions. All at a time when the costs of care are unsupportable and the Silver Tsunami is upon us View in LinkedIn