Month: September 2022

THE HYBRID AGE. "Ayesha & Parag Khanna discuss the main characteristics of the Hybrid Age...the notion of human-technology co-evolution and the framework of geo-technology for interpreting historical change.... social robotics, the virtual economy, and smart cities. They present numerous scenarios for social, economic and geopolitical disruptions that might occur in the coming decades."" " http://lnkd.in/dmAuzTW View in LinkedIn

HYBRID REALITY. "Parag and Ayesha Khanna's new book Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization is bursting with big ideas, but the most fundamental concept is what the authors call 'the Hybrid Age.' The Khannas take their cue from Alvin and Heidi Toffler and their book Future Shock that was published at the dawn of the information age in 1970."" " http://lnkd.in/d3avsCs View in LinkedIn

PACE OF CHANGE. "the Tofflers anticipated many trends and disruptive forces that are now "in full bloom": the crisis of industrialism, demise of the nuclear family, proliferation of private armies, information overload, and the centrality of cities in global governance, and the DIY revolution. Their most prescient insight, however, was the Tofflers' observation about the pace of change."" " http://lnkd.in/d3avsCs View in LinkedIn

NEW ERA. "Every few centuries mankind makes certain advances that come to define a new era. While we are now living in the Information Age, we are on the verge of a rapid transition into a period that will see many different scientific disciplines such as biomechantronics and synthetic neurobiology merge with each other. The call this the “Hybrid Age.” Humans are now "a template for technology, Both the physical incorporation or biological, but also the psychological."" " http://lnkd.in/d3avsCs View in LinkedIn

IT MERGES WITH BIOLOGY. "The Hybrid Age is the frontier of the Information Age. Our historical eras are additive: look at how so much of the world is just now industrializing! So as information technologies merge with biology, physics, neuroscience and a host of other disciplines, we have to look beyond just IT into what new pattern of socio-technical relations is emerging."" " http://lnkd.in/d2rnJhE View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION." ""Technological innovation is the main driver of long-term economic growth. Over long time scales, the compound effects of even modest average annual growth are profound. One does not have to embrace any strong form of technological determinism to recognize that technological capability – through its complex interactions with individuals, institutions, cultures, and environment – is a key determinant of the ground rules within which the games of human civilization get played out."" " http://lnkd.in/dQq7GxT View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO CONFERENCE ON ANTIBIOTICS 2014. "Now, this meeting will explore the significant progress that has been achieved in the intervening 3 years, in synthetic biology as applied in the field of antibiotic production, including the implementation and modification of complex biosynthesis pathway modules, orthologous regulatory circuitry development, new production host development, and awakening sleeping clusters by use of synthetic biology." http://syntheticbio.esf.org/ View in LinkedIn

ENTERING THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGY. "We're moving beyond the "Information Age" and its conflation of IT with technology itself. Instead, we are entering an era of technology with a big "T" in which various fields, from physics and biology to mathematics and neuroscience, are combining with one another -- and being accelerated by IT -- to produce powerful new offspring."" " http://lnkd.in/dCY5_xy View in LinkedIn

SENSATE FUTURE. "One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020. In a recent report by IBM it is estimated that the Hybrid Age will see the introduction of one trillion sensors connected to the Internet by 2015; sensors will be part of every technology from automobiles to fashion to eating utensils, you name it. All of this will add huge amounts of data to the world’s storage mediums."" " http://lnkd.in/dTeHnHf View in LinkedIn

CYBERSEX? "Bond wearables let two geographically separated people 'touch' each other." Watch this space. " " http://lnkd.in/dUNVuzH View in LinkedIn