future summit day 1
Here at the Future Summit 2009 in Melbourne - interesting attendees (lots of people in suits though ;)
You can check out the Flickr photos and videos & see the twitter stream on Twemes
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Future Summiteer
~ next week I'm off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May.
The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here).
This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos
Future Summiteer
~ next week I'm off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May.
The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here).
This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos
Do we need robotic technology rules of engagement?
In a recent post I discussed a talk by Dr Peter Singer about robotics and 21st century warfare. This use of technology raises some very big moral dilemmas, especially in the area of law, rules of engagement, and the personal effects of this kind of warfare on both combatants and
Singularity be damned!
It's the robotics revolution that is already here! It is reshaping our world in some important ways and most of us aren't even noticing.
I attended a talk yesterday by Dr Peter Singer, of the Brookings Institution, about his new book, Wired for War: The Robotics
Singularity be damned!
It's the robotics revolution that is already here! It is reshaping our world in some important ways and most of us aren't even noticing.
I attended a talk yesterday by Dr Peter Singer, of the Brookings Institution, about his new book, Wired for War: The Robotics
On our way to a networked society.
In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organisations and were vastly expensive to setup and run. But the invention of TCP/IP and the modern internet changed all that. Now networks are between ordinary