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Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13
     
    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
Maria Gurova

James Cameron on the Future of Cinema | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian - 1 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...on-the-future-of-cinema-983659

Theatrical Technology entertainment moviegoing content production talent Storytelling

shared by Maria Gurova on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • The technology has changed but the basics of the job haven’t. It is still about storytelling, about juxtaposing images, about creating a feeling with images and music. Only the technical details have changed
  • I think there will be movie thea­ters in 1,000 years. People want the group experience, the sense of going out and participating in a film together
  • I think it will be standard in 4 years, not 40. We will have a glasses-free technology in five years at home and three years for laptops. The limiting factor is going to be content. You can’t rely on a few films a year for this. It is going to have to be 3-D broadcast sports, scripted television, non-scripted television and reality television
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  • Hollywood is also the place for filmmakers who want to make movies for a global market. China and Russia make films for their own markets, but I don’t see the likelihood of those places replacing Hollywood
  • Maria Gurova on 01 Jun 16
     
    James Cameron believes that despite of exciting new technology - making movie is and will always be about the story. also he is certain that going to watch a movie together is a shared group experience that audience will still be looking for in the future, no mater how advance the in-home technology will be
alexbelov

The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

www.weforum.org/...e-fourth-industrial-revolution

Social economy innovation learning

shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
asibilev

Will China really dominate? | World Finance - 0 views

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Economy Russia China

shared by asibilev on 12 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • In the case of Russia, these numbers assume that its current demographic decline is counterbalanced and gradually reversed by the effects of an Arctic windfall, and that it can maintain effective control of its Far East region.
  • Ignoring the effects of environmental change, China will be by far the largest economy, with a GDP that is 40 percent of the total for the top twenty economies. The US will be second with a GDP well under half that of China. India will be third and Brazil will be fourth.
  • Taking environmental change into account, China and the US will be neck-and-neck with 24 percent each of the GDP for the top twenty, Russia will be third, Brazil fourth and India fifth. Most of China’s catch-up will happen early, prior to 2030; before climate change really bites.
Maria Gurova

The Personal Blog of Zack Kanter - How Uber's Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million J... - 1 views

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Technology Economy Environment transportation market autonomous transport self-driving car Uber Tesla transportation cloud Shared Economy efficiency Energy

shared by Maria Gurova on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • . Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030
  • They will cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy, solve large portions of our environmental problems, prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year, save millions of hours with increased productivity, and create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point.
  • Morgan Stanley’s research shows that cars are driven just 4% of the time,5 which is an astonishing waste considering that the average cost of car ownership is nearly $9,000 per year.6
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  • The car purchasers of the future will not be you and me – cars will be purchased and operated by ride sharing and car sharing companies.
  • , it is unlikely that major automakers like General Motors, Ford, and Toyota will survive the leap.
  • while startup automakers like Tesla will thrive on a smaller number of fleet sales to operators like Uber by offering standardized models with fewer options.
  • 884,000 people are employed in motor vehicles and parts manufacturing, and an additional 3.02 million in the dealer and maintenance network.22 Truck, bus, delivery, and taxi drivers account for nearly 6 million professional driving jobs. Virtually all of these 10 million jobs will be eliminated within 10-15 years
  • Maria Gurova on 05 Nov 15
     
    an article about autonomous transportation and how disruptive they might be not only for the car and transport industry but for entire economy
Anna Dubinina

How robots will reshape the economy (based on U.S. example) - 0 views

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CIS science technology Social economy robots

shared by Anna Dubinina on 21 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Few doubt that our future — both immediate and long term — will be heavily impacted by robots
  • A pair of Oxford researchers recently estimated that 47 percent of the total U.S. employment is at risk of being eliminated.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, Mercedes announced it is trading out some of its production robots for human labor — the machines could not keep up with the increasing options for customization
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  • robots in the workplace will likely help reverse this trend.
  • The vast majority of automation technology will not outright replace humans; instead, it will simply make their work more efficient.
  • As the global supply chain matured, market pressures drove American companies to offshore their work to other countries that offered inexpensive labor
  • This is not to say that all white-collar workers should enroll in engineering night classes, but knowing how technology works at a base level will make you better at your job 
  • Employers need to actively promote training programs that empower employees to work more effectively with new tech.
Maria Gurova

Is it curtains for the big screen? - FT.com - 1 views

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Theatrical entertainment in-home vs in-theatre screen fights The Screening Room premium formats windowing strategy Pause pushers tentpole strategy blockbuster

shared by Maria Gurova on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • According to the National Association of Theatre Owners, US movie attendance peaked in 2002 and has been steadily declining ever since. To compensate, theatres have rolled out new technologies such as 3D, Imax and premium large-format cinemas, raising their ticket prices and thus keeping the box office at record-breaking levels
  • The majority of us are increasingly staying home.
  • At Cannes this year, the studio with the most films in competition
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  • was not one of the big studios, but the streaming service Amazon.
  • But blockbusters have a design flaw: their marketing costs are enormous — opening a movie typically costs anywhere from $20m — and they spend less and less time in cinemas. To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend
  • “What you’re going to end up with is fewer theatres,” George Lucas said during a panel at the University of Southern California in 2013. “Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies is going to cost you 50 bucks, maybe 100.”
  • He argued that a film will come out in cinemas for 17 days — three weekends — which is where 98 per cent of films make 95 per cent of their revenues anyway. On the 18th day, the film will be available everywhere and you will pay for the size: a movie screen will be $15, a 75-inch TV will be $4, a smartphone will be $1.99.
  • “Fifty per cent of Americans did not step into a movie theatre last year, and of the 50 per cent that did go into a theatre, 95 per cent of them went to one or two films,”
  • Arguably, it’s more visual than television. It has our full attention: each frame must pull its weight in terms of narrative and spectacle. That is why it is a director’s medium: it envelops us. TV comes to us, into our homes, casual, familiar, favouring habit-forming episodic narratives. That is why it is a writer’s medium. The big screen glamorises — its stars are the stuff of myth; the small screen is more like a member of the family
  • And something like The Avengers, it’s too much fun laughing with the audience. These things are communal experiences.
  • But then many film-makers would argue that movies should be consumed differently from music: a song is a song wherever you play it, whereas films were built for the big screen.
  • “I don’t think that experience is going to die,” says Obst, “although I do worry that eventually we will all be inside on our huge computer screens, watching all of the different types of entertainment together
  • Nothing breaks the spell of the movie more instantly than the pause button.
Maria Gurova

The Movie Theater of the Future Will Be In Your Mind | Tribeca - 1 views

tribecafilm.com/...-movie-theater-is-in-your-mind

Theatrical Technology Immersive Experience entertainment multy-sensory experience neuroscience adjustable entertainment Adaptive Storytelling Storytelling Digital vs Physical blured reality

shared by Maria Gurova on 03 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Merging SEGA technology and BBC Earth content, the new attraction takes visitors on a multi-sensory journey to explore animals and nature through sight, smell, touch and sound.
  • The venue includes one of Japan’s largest screens (131 ft W x 26 ft H) with remarkable visual and sonic resolution and 12 separate walk-through entertainment zones
  • evolve into large-scale public attractions becoming urban theme parks, where cinema is only part of the experience
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  • The merging of real and projected worlds will produce a seamless experience – a complete illusion of being part of a film.
  • A truly dramatic change will come once scientists discover a way to manipulate senses directly through the brain. That is when cinema will quite literally start to merge and replace real life
  • One will be able to choose between real-life exploration or a fictional quest with chosen characters. Since memories will be recorded, one would be able to include anyone they have ever encountered, including favorite celebrities or fictional heroes.
  • Just as 3D films are only exciting for the first few minutes, characters, events and conflicts will continue to drive cinema of the future.
Maria Gurova

8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 3 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...-will-change-the-world-by-2020

Technology Political social predict the future health education internet of things devices

shared by Maria Gurova on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • NEW EDUCATION MODELS
  • education will become an "on-demand service" where people "pull down a module of learning" when they need it.
  • "School kids will learn from short bite-sized modules, and gamification practices will be incorporated in schools
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  • Making will go mainstream
  • not just with the creative class, but with people who would never consider themselves to be traditionally 'creative'--opening up a whole population of pragmatists who now make extremely useful 'artwork'
  • In the past, innovative products flowed from rich countries to poor countries. By 2020, the pipeline may start flipping
  • Africa embraces technology to solve health and education challenges, it may start exporting its models elsewhere
  • By 2020, mobile money will have spread throughout Africa, enabling some of the 2 billion people without access to financial services to come into the formal system.
  • dark imaginings: The end of privacy and the continued rise of surveillance. The personalization of everything and the end of serendipity. Dependence on devices. Loss of human autonomy in the face of artificial intelligence.
  • Machines
  • running our lives to a very large degree...
  • Maria Gurova on 17 Jan 14
     
    Many of things we've already discussed
alexbelov

Facebook's Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store |... - 0 views

techcrunch.com/...books-messenger-in-a-bot-store

chatbots messaging technology Social

shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Today, Facebook Messenger has 800 million monthly active users – more than 100 times the number of iPhone owners when Apple launched the App Store. Messenger’s current active user base exceeds even the total number of iPhones ever sold. Messaging apps now have more active users than social networks.
  • If and when Facebook announces a Bot Store, it will mark the “end of the beginning” of a new era: messaging as a platform. Conversational user interfaces are about to change the way billions of users interact with the world around them.
  • Pavel Durov announced the expansion of the Telegram Bot Store and Ted Livingston staked out Kik’s claim to be the WeChat of the West. By the end of the year, Slack had announced the Slack App Directory, supported by an $80 million fund to fuel the growth of the ecosystem, and Google was rumored to be developing its own chatbots.
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  • 2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Facebook is developing chatbot platform for its messenger. It will open new opportunities for online businesses, including conversational commerce. Message bots will become new apps and challenge existing industries.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Driving in the Networked Age | Reid Hoffman | LinkedIn - 0 views

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Technology Social science networked driving

shared by Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 20 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • how soon will it be illegal to operate human-driven cars on public streets?
  • autonomous vehicles will also be able to share information with each other better than human drivers can, in both real-time situations and over time. Every car on the road will benefit from what every other car has learned. Driving will be a networked activity, with tighter feedback loops and a much greater ability to aggregate, analyze, and redistribute knowledge.
  • when thousands and then even millions of cars are connected in this way, new capabilities are going to emerge.
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  • But the benefits of self-driving cars are so significant that in time the public will demand prohibitions against old-fashioned legacy driving in most public spaces
  • there are more than 2 billion legacy cars on the road, globally. Currently, the car industry can only produce around 100 million new vehicles a year. Just from a manufacturing perspective, it could take 20 years to build a new fleet that approximates the one we have now.
  • Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 20 Jul 15
     
    driverless cars that will function with a "zero
Vladimir Antonov

BMW Vision Next 100 shows future of BMW - Business Insider - 1 views

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AI Technology automotive interaction

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 10 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • body of the concept car is designed to maximize aerodynamic efficiency and is constructed primarily out of recycled materials
  • BMW has also eliminated to wood and leather from the its interiors to promote sustainable manufacturing.
  • The BMW design study also incorporates full autonomous and manual driving modes, called "Ease" and "Boost" modes.
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  • In Ease mode, the car is fully autonomous, and the driver the able to sit back let the machine do the driving.
  • Boost mode affords the driver the opportunity to push the performance boundaries of the BMW at his or own pleasure. It's the traditional BMW driving experience. 
  • future of automobiles will be built upon four pillars
  • Artificial intelligence and intuitive technology
  • future cars will be able to learn, think and interact in a more human-like manner. 
  • future technology will be seamlessly integrated into the usage experience in way that the driver may not even know he or she is interacting with technology
  • According to BMW, the development of carbon fiber and composite parts along with new manufacturing techniques like 4D printing may render old-fashioned pressed steel obsolete.
  • mobility will remain an emotional experience
  • BMWs will remain driver focused
  • Features such as autonomous drive are key because they keep the brand at the forefront technological development. But they may threaten the driver-centric, pleasure-of-driving ethos BMW has built for itself over the past 100 years
  • Vladimir Antonov on 10 Mar 16
     
    1. BMW probably won't be exist in 100 years from now :) 2. Those cars will be on our roads much much sooner 
Maria Gurova

Future of Film: Even Bigger Screens and, Yep, Cinema Selfies - Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

www.hollywoodreporter.com/...film-bigger-screens-yep-728426

Theatrical Technology cinema screen fights Immersive Experience 3D 360-degree video adjustable entertainment Adaptive Storytelling interactive Barco Escape panoramic screen non-conventional content in cinema

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  • a new generation of even more ambitious theaters — possibly even including cinema's first holodeck — is waiting in the wings.
  • The first Escape theaters — which will include the Cinemark 18 & XD at the Promenade at the Howard Hughes Center in Los Angeles — will open Sept. 19, showing a special edition of Fox's new young adult thriller The Maze Runner
  • Escape theaters showing The Maze Runner will project the live-action movie on to the center screen, and the side screens will feature additional visual effects
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  • "We believe entertainment needs to continue to evolve with a more immersive experience,"
  • Movie screens will continue to morph into ever-wider configurations
  • That footage will be shown in a special 360-degree OmniCam theater installation planned for the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich. Meanwhile, startup Jaunt is developing a 360-degree camera for use in virtual reality
  • High-tech interactivity also may play a role in the next generation of theaters.
  • They would include a theater where a 3D movie is projected onto a 360-degree dome-shaped screen and real-time facial replacement would be used to project audience members into the action
  • "You'd have a wristband that identifies who you are, and if you elect to, your body and face can be scanned, allowing the attractions to include you in them and allow you to interact with them
Olga Bykova

(71) Storytelling: How will the craft of storytelling change in the future? - Quora - 4 views

www.quora.com/...rytelling-change-in-the-future

storytelling virtual reality transmedia

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  • The "tools" of storytelling will change,
  • in the future Storytelling will not change
  • The "tools" of storytelling will change
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  • Transmedia Storytelling
  • Virtual Reality
  • Interactivity and Video Games
  • Audience Participation
  • Enhanced Perception
  • Expanded Sensory Experience
  • Stories emerging from a bottom up, rather than a top down process
alexbelov

China's Great GREEN Wall to stop climate change - 1 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...alt-advancing-Gobi-Desert.html

Ecology climate change China forest Environment Eco-Empathy

shared by alexbelov on 13 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Will China's Great GREEN Wall save the country from dust storms? 100 billion tree project could halt advancing Gobi Desert
  • advancing
  • China is planting huge strips of trees to stop the Gobi DesertFor decades the desert has been advancing and causing serious dust storms in key cities such as BeijingSince 1978 the government has been planting trees to reverse the widespread deforestation that took place in ChinaNow a recent study suggests the project has been a successThey found increased vegetation and lower levels of dust storm intensityBy 2050 100 billion trees will be planted across a tenth of the country 
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  • ‘From this result, we infer that the implementation of the GGW programme has effectively decreased DSI by improving the vegetation conditions,’ they write.
  • alexbelov on 13 Nov 15
     
    Since 1978 China has been planting huge strips of trees to stop the Gobi Desert which is advancing to the key cities such as Beijing.The interim project results are positive. They will plant 100 billion trees across the country by 2050 to cover 1/10 of the country. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2874368/Will-China-s-Great-GREEN-Wall-save-country-dust-storms-100-billion-tree-project-halt-advancing-Gobi-Desert.html#ixzz3rMg1Prmb  Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
alexbelov

Oculus announces new social features to help personalize VR experiences | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology VR Social gaming

shared by alexbelov on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Starting tomorrow, users on the Gear VR platform will be able to create their own user profiles and search for friends by username who they can interact with in virtual space.
  • Social Trivia, which will allow you to hang out with buddies’ avatars in a social space and compete in trivia battles. Users will also be able to create VR chatrooms of sorts with Oculus Social where they can watch videos together from Vimeo or Twitch.
  • retty soon we’re going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes as if you’re just there right there in person
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  • Alongside this launch, Oculus announced a new multiplayer game that makes use of some of these new social features.
  • alexbelov on 11 Mar 16
     
    Gaming and social media market landscape will very soon change a lot thanks to virtual reality.
alexbelov

Cybathlon - Championship for Cyborgs - 0 views

www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en

sports cybersports Technology championship athletes disabilities

shared by alexbelov on 04 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Experience a world première: On Saturday, 8 October 2016 ETH Zurich is organising the very first Cybathlon! Individuals with physical disabilities will compete side by side in six demanding disciplines, using the latest assistive technologies.
  • There are races for athletes with powered arm and leg prostheses, for those wearing a robotic exoskeleton and for powered wheelchairs. There’s also a race for cyclists using electrical muscle stimulation and even a brain-computer interface race.
  • Cybathlon provides a platform for the development of novel assistive technologies that are useful for daily life. Through the organisation of the Cybathlon we want to remove barriers between people with disabilities, the public and technology developers.
  • alexbelov on 04 Apr 16
     
    The first world's olympic games for athletes with disabilities powered by cybernetic prothesis will take place this year in Zurich. It's expected that 80 teams from different countries will participate. The next Cybathlon is planned in Tokyo 2020 during the Summer Olympics.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

The Next Sensor Will Be IN You : The Insideables | LinkedIn - 0 views

www.linkedin.com/...sor-will-be-in-you-insideables

science Technology

shared by Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Next up will be all kinds of 'devices' that will go in your body. This may be just under your skin, in your eye, swallowed or injected.
Maria Gurova

Using ToyTalk Technology, New Hello Barbie Will Have Real Conversations With Kids | Fas... - 1 views

www.fastcompany.com/...-will-have-real-conversations-

Technology Play KE entertainment learning mattel barbie market speech recognition Toys

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  • Maria Gurova on 16 Feb 15
     
    I've posted earlier about this ToyTalk company, they are founded by the guy who worked at Pixar for 20 years. The company develops the speech recognition technology, signed their first deal with a big toy company - Mattel. They are going to develop Barbie doll that will be able to sustain meaningful conversations with kids
Maria Gurova

FuturePundit: Regulations For Offspring Genetic Engineering - 0 views

www.futurepundit.com/...009750.html

bioengineering Health DNA genetic engineering inequality ethics Political population Future of Talent enhanced offsprings world government Humanity

shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • The prospect of genetically much altered future generations is no longer in the distant science fiction future but rather in the "some of the people reading this will live to see it on large scale" future.
  • Some more competitive governments might mandate genetic editing to put a floor on intelligence. Want a first class high tech economy? Allow no kid below 120 IQ. The first government to do that will have the highest per capita income economy in the world 50 years later if not much sooner.
  • My expectation is that differences in regulatory response to germ line genetic engineering technologies will cause the populations of the world's various countries to diverge in a variety of ways that will be immediately visibl
  • Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15
     
    in the highly delicate mater of genetic engineering that might become a reality sooner that one might expect, how would the individual governments react? And is this an internal affair that is to be handled inside the country that might get the first access to the high-end bio engineering technology. 
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