The World Future Society meeting theme for 2011 was "Moving From Vision to Action." Doc Kim shows two ways in which he has put ideas expressed here on Internet Evolution into concrete action. Watch and learn!
What validates us as humans are things we can do that computers can't. Michio Kaku tells us in his latest book, "Physics of the Future," that computer reproduction of the human face will not be fully achieved for decades. Hooray!
Kevin Kelly's new book, "What Technology Wants," is insightful, but it remains an unanswered question how we can influence the future of technology in a positive way.
Do you think your personality can be resurrected 50 years from now through an artificial intelligence analysis of your Gmail content? Well. It can't. Sorry.
The Internet-connected Sony Aibo robotic dog Boris appears on two lists of biggest tech flops of the last decade. But that won’t stop Ol' Doc Kim from loving him unconditionally. Woof.
Ol' Doc Solez believes the Internet’s effect on our brains and lives can be a good thing if we take charge of our own digital destiny. Even tech critic Jaron Lanier agrees… sort of.
Once defined by epic journeys, planning, and maps, the phrase "on the road" takes on new meaning in a digital age, where we can make all our decisions using our connected devices en route.
Is book culture better than Web culture? A recent op-ed in The New York Times provides a balanced view on this question, but reproduced in another paper, the piece becomes one-sided. Oh, the humanity!
An email from Ukraine teaches us that perhaps those who complain about the Internet just haven’t figured out how to spam people’s inboxes with requests for pens and balloons… or something.
In Brazil, Internet access is regarded as a civil right, and ordinary people are involved in determining the country's digital future. In contrast, in Canada, a government request for input on the future of the digital economy is mainly being responded to by industry. A combined populist/industry approach will give the best results.
The latest Pew Internet survey has interesting data about what they call Millennials, young people born between 1980 and 2000. Doc Kim runs the findings past some actual young’uns.
“Hello" was considered a vulgar word back in 1877. But the telephone made it acceptable (bear with us here). Doc Kim thinks many of the tech words we dislike today will follow a similar trajectory to respectability. Hello to you, too!
The makers of Pleo robotic baby dinosaurs began advertising on the Internet last month the first ever "new skin for aging robots," giving a new perspective on aging of tech devices, Dr. Kim thinks.
Since September 15, 2007, Google has been consistently the most visited Website in the US. Last week that changed. Now, Facebook is numero uno – and looks like it may stay that way. What does that mean for the human race? No, seriously.
Dr. Kim and his Internet-connected Aibo dog explain how computers may seem to care about us now and understand the world around them – but they don’t really. But someday they will. It’s all very strange.
A PBS TV show recently presented the idea of pursuing a hobby or a career by educating yourself in a specialty using purely Web-based resources. Inspiring, but Dr. Kim asks whether there are any real examples of people who have actually succeeded at this strategy.
Ray Kurzweil's Blio and Apple's iPad tablet will make it easier than ever to have books "read" to us, says Dr. Kim, who believes that talking tablets will become interwoven into our consciousness as we "merge" with the increasingly elegant machines we hold in our hands.
Google is now capable of providing machine translation in 51 languages. Soon everything important you say or write will be more widely accessible in languages you do not understand than in those you do. Instant translation of everything important will become the norm, thinks Dr. Kim.
The futuristic ideas being expounded on Internet Evolution are quickly becoming part of today’s mass culture, and can help shape the future of the Internet, thinks Doc Solez.
It’s easy to visualize an evil Internet dominated by malware, fraud, cyberwarfare, and other nastiness, but the movie Avatar presents a beautiful and positive alternative vision of the future of connectivity, argues Dr. Kim Solez.
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