Green PCs Get an A for Effort
Conventional wisdom has it that PCs and electronics are just bad for the environment – think nasty chemicals, extreme water use, and e-waste. Manufacturers are making progress, with more on the horizon.
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Why “Othering” AI Keeps Us From Understanding It
AI is not coming to get us. It’s already here and adding real value to our daily lives. Deployed with vision and foresight, robotics and machine-learning has the promise to make us more human in...
The Year the World Finally Became Techonomic
Zooming from home, tech stock insanity, ceaseless digital transformation and even a new cyberwar–in 2020 tech finally landed decisively at the center of modern life. The world is forever altered.
We Should Rename “Artificial Intelligence” (A Modest Proposal)
"Artificial Intelligence" is phrase of the year, yet the term is widely called misleading. And it's ridiculed by industry CEOs. But what can we use instead? "Augmented intelligence"? "Intelligence amplification"? We have a proposal that...
How Entrepreneurship Built My Confidence as a Woman in Tech
A few months ago, I was a Muslim immigrant woman studying computer science at the City College of New York. I didn't guess I would help found prize-winning edtech startup Enrich. It helps students and...
Food Production in a Technology-driven Economy
The Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab aims to drive a paradigm shift from the industrial to the networked age of agricultural production—giving rise to a computationally-based food systems revolution that will account...
Next Week’s Techonomy Bio: A Focus on Systems of Life
At last year's Techonomy Bio, we put venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson on a panel of investors. In his enthusiasm for the unbridled potential of innovation in the life sciences to transform society, Jurvetson at one...
Davos 2015: Berkeley Psychologist Alison Gopnik on Computer Learning
UC Berkeley Professor of Psychology Alison Gopnik visits Hub Culture at the World Economic Forum Davos 2015. Gopnik explores the idea of computer learning and designing computers to "think" like a child.
Your Computer Will Feel Your Pain
What if your computer could empathize with you? The evolving field known as affective computing is likely to make it happen soon. Scientists and engineers are developing systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process,...