What’s New — Archive
I Asked ChatGPT to Develop a College Class About Itself
All Those Professors Warning About ChatGPT? My Class Is Their Worst Nightmare. (Slate)
What’s a Luddite?
The original Luddites were not anti-technology. Their argument was with how wealthy industrialists were robbing them of their way of life. (Gizmodo)
Why Soylent Green Got 2022 So Wrong
I should like the 1973 film Soylent Green — but as we reach the year it’s set in, I have some issues with it! (Slate)
Future of Being Human Substack
What will it mean to be human a hundred years from now, and how can this catalyze our thoughts and actions in the present? A wide-ranging newsletter on technology, society, and the future.
An Introduction to Prompt Engineering
Resources and exercises from a new course designed to develop basic prompt engineering skills with ChatGPT — including using the technology responsibly.
The Future of Being Human
A unique community of bold, audacious and visionary thinkers who are inspired by what it might mean to be human in a technologically transformed futureand who are passionate about exploring how this influences our thinking and actions in the present.
Future of Being Human Substack
What will it mean to be human a hundred years from now, and how can this catalyze our thoughts and actions in the present? A wide-ranging newsletter on technology, society, and the future.
Making sense of the risks and benefits of AI
Risk Bites looks at ten potential consequences of AI we should be paying attention to if we want to develop the technology responsibly and beneficially.
The Future of Being Human
A unique community of bold, audacious and visionary thinkers who are inspired by what it might mean to be human in a technologically transformed futureand who are passionate about exploring how this influences our thinking and actions in the present.
Is ChatGPT a boon for Academics?
I find writing about myself and my achievements for my annual academic review a miserable process. So I thought I’d see of ChatGPT could help.
The Antarctic Overview Effect
At the end of 2022 I co-led a group of 13 students on an expedition cruise to Antarctica. Explore about how the experience impacted us all here.
The Furure of Being Human
A unique community of bold, audacious and visionary thinkers who are inspired by what it might mean to be human in a technologically transformed futureand who are passionate about exploring how this influences our thinking and actions in the present.
Is ChatGPT a boon for Academics?
I find writing about myself and my achievements for my annual academic review a miserable process. So I thought I’d see of ChatGPT could help.
The Antarctic Overview Effect
At the end of 2022 I co-led a group of 13 students on an expedition cruise to Antarctica. Explore about how the experience impacted us all here.
The Furure of Being Human
A unique community of bold, audacious and visionary thinkers who are inspired by what it might mean to be human in a technologically transformed futureand who are passionate about exploring how this influences our thinking and actions in the present.
The Future of Food
A talk on Soylent Green, complex systems, and the future of food, given at Geography 2050 in New York City, November 2022
ChatGPT and Responsible Innovation
I asked Open AI’s ChatGPT about responsible innovation. This is what I got.
Into the Metaverse
A conversation with Jordan and Rosanna Catapano about all things metaverse (and beyond) on the podcast Relentless Pursuit.
Exploring responsible innovation
An extremely wide ranging conversation with Xiao Han Drummond on responsible innovation and the future
Season 3 of Mission: Interplanetary
Andrew once again joins former astronaut Cady Coleman for season three of this ground-breaking podcast about the future of humans in space.
Neuralink’s Technology Is Impressive. Is It Ethical?
Elon Musk’s audacious vision of a smartphone-controlled brain-machine interface comes with potential risks
56 Stunning AI Art Images
Images generated from the prompt “Will we be able to design and create synthetic consciousness in the future?”
AI Friend or Foe?
Is artificial intelligence an asset or a risk as we strive to build a better future?
What if we think of the future as an object?
A extended podcast episode based on a TEDx talk that was nixed by COVID
Jurassic World and Responsible Innovation
Jurassic World: Dominion may fall short on the science, but it’s social commentary is worth heeding.
Top Ten Technologies
Scientific American and the World Economic Forum recently published their tenth annual list of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies. I’ve been privileged to be an advisor and contributor to the list from the get-go.
Humanoid Robots?
Elon Musk’s newly-announced Tesla Bot raises serious concerns – but probably not the ones you think. FastCompany
Why Soylent Green Got 2022 So Wrong
I should like the 1973 film Soylent Green — but as we reach the year it’s set in, I have some issues with it! Writing for Slate.
Enter the Metaverse
As Facebook and other companies embrace the metaverse, it’s time t explore what it is and wehat it means for the future. A conversation with PBS Horizon’s Ted Simons
Alexa at the Super Bowl
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost poke fun at an Alexa mind-reading future in this year’s Amazon Super-Bowl ad, but is the company hiding worrying longer-term aspirations in plain sight?
How to Make the World a Better Place
How do you create value that’s meaningful to you? And what happens when you hit roadblocks despite your best intentions? From the 2020 KEEN National Conference
Relationship Building with the Future
Ten ways we can build a better relationship with the future, from reveling in our cerativity to designing with humility (World Economic Forum)
Thinking Differently about the Future
The first part of the book Future Rising, available as a podcast.
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